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Support LogFilter for ibm-filterSubject

Currently, we can set a logfilter for an IP-Adress by using / F ldapuxsl, LOG FILTER,(IBM-FILTERIP=1.2.3.4) In the ACL documentation we find additional filters that can be set for ACLs, for example ibm-filterSubject. Having the Subject filter also...
5 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

TCPIP Sysplex Ditributor SERVERWLM low weights management

We have a large database ( 6 DB2 members, more than 10000 DB2 transactions per second) where DDF TCP traffic is balanced with VIPA SERVERWLM algorithm. In normal condition WLM weights are high enough to spread new sockets in a balanced way. When t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Increase maximum length of MVS Console commands

The MVS console does not accept commands longer than 126 characters.This can be a problem when issuing long commands (such as DUMP, SLIP, or GTF commands) from CLISTs or other automation scripts. Given that this occurrence is quite frequent, we sh...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Future consideration

Improve DSFS Help messages for readability

Improve DSFS help message to be more readable. Examples: Current dsadm createparm -help IDFS00090I Usage: IDFZADM createparm -path <path name> [{-pdsmodel <sub-directory parameters> | -psmodel <sub-file parameters>}] [-level] [-h...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Keep history of changes when changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF, although the person who submits the updates can view information about their changes from the View Text Contents panel, others don't know what changes they have made. So we want to keep the hist...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Forbid a zFS mount of an IDCAMS PATH

When we create an IDCAMS PATH on a zFS, although the IBM documentation says "DON'T DO IT" , it is still allowed. Plus, zFS allows a PATH to be mounted on mountpoint A while you can still mounthe real zFS to mountpoint B, which lead to corrupt our ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

Addition of Subject Altnames to IRRDBU00 Unloads

Hello, We're creating some processes around reporting of SSL certificate information which involves parsing through an IRRDBU00 for certificate info, and Subject Altnames are not currently included in that unload. We're doing it this way partly to...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Reduce CPU consumption of IOS HyperSwap API address space for a large number of addresses

When executing a reload of the GDPS GEOPARM the IOSHSAPI ( IOS HyperSwap API address space ) consumes a lot of CPU in a short period of time when there is a high number of addresses under GDPS, causing some customer applications to slowdown and ha...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Function to send a broadcast message to all users of z/OSMF

There are times when the z/OS system needs to send a broadcast message to all users to inform them of some system event that is planned. The z/OS Operator SEND command does this for TSO users, as does the TSO SEND command. The shell wall command c...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

z/OS - Expand DISPLAY IOS to display all possible settings from IECIOSxx

Currently, not all values can be checked/display once updated. In 2010 I opened PMR 32372,070,724 and on conclusion it was stated, "I created MR051110250 for the missing DISPLAY of MSGONLY setting.", but it's not yet implemented. Case TS013583156 ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

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