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RACF Trace to trace only nonzero return codes

I can enable RACF trace for a job, but it captures so many records, and it is hard to find the records of interest. I would like to see a new option #SET TRACE(NONZERO) which produces only exit records where the return code was non zero.
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Preventing ICH14081I Warning Message

ICH14081I message is issued when RACF encounters a duplicate class name in the dynamic class descriptor table and the installation-defined class descriptor table (module ICHRRCDE). The class attributes in the dynamic class table override any class...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Enable OCOPY to create and maintain ISPF statistics for PDS members

Currently, using OCOPY to update a PDS does not generate ISPF statistics, which would be useful for a number of reasons. FTP allows this now as long as the ISPFSTATS configuration statement is present.
9 months ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

OpenShift Foundation for zCX Support for Egress IP addresses

Currently, we're migrating services from OpenShift x86 to OpenShift in zCX. One of our services have to use Egress IP addresses - this is a security requirement. Once we've configured the Egress IPs within OCP@zCX, we see the outbound SYN coming i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Automatic update of MRDB when customer initiates CIU transaction.

Currently when a customer makes a permanent upgrade via CIU, the MRDB must be updated manually by the HW rep or Business Partner, leading to possible future ordering issues if the manual update is not completed.
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Functionality already exists

Provide full sysout access (read only acceptable) mirroring SDSF access

Currently with /dsfs/sysout/ the user is only allowed to see and look at spool data that is owned by their userid, which includes any TSO sessions or batch jobs under that userid. With SDSF that same user can view the spool for not only my own sys...
7 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

SMF Subtype reporting

z/OS 2.4 offers new way of reporting SMF subtypes. It provides a report on record type and subype. However, it would be nice, if this report would show how many record type and subtype records were produced per System. This functionality can be ac...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

Additional Information needed in VTOC Summary Display

In ISPF 3.4 one can Display the VTOC summary by using the Option "V".When using EAV volumes, it is not possible to evaluate the usage of the cylinder managed space distinct from the track managed space. there are values for- full volume size in tr...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

ADRDSSU Dump: should not ignore migrated Dataset, at least give warning message for Migrated Dataset not included in DUMP

Hello Team,Our monthly maintenance process is lot dependent on ADRDSSU utility, where we take DUMP of target to Runtime and Runtime DUMP from one lpar to another using ADRDSSU. Last two months due to some SMS change some of our target libraries go...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Future consideration

Add a RACDCERT REST API to z/OSMF

It would be useful if we could get an API to manage digital certificates or at the minimum get a list of keyrings and certificates on the system. A RACDCERT API could be used for external management tools and to make utilities that give notificati...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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