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Add new parameter in SYS1.PARMLIB to allow OAM to use an optional LPAR name for zFS-resident objects

Currently, when OAM accesses objects where the Primary copy is resident in zFS, the full filesystem pathname is built dynamically, and one of the elements in the pathname is the LPAR name. In cases where an OAM environment is moved to a different ...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 0 Future consideration

In the LSPACE macro given the option switch off SVCDUMPs for VTOC errors

Change LSPACE to allow the option to suppress SVCDUMPs for VTOC errors
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 3 Future consideration

Enhance HCM Cable Assignments dialog, allow exclusion of connections that cannot be assigned a cable

In HCM, Cable Assignments, When viewing connections without cables, there are some connections displayed which cannot be assigned a cable. OSA, IQD types for example. Add an additional filter option to exclude from the display, connections which c...
4 months ago in z/OS / HCM 0 Future consideration

RACF: Establish a Permission Create Date

This idea goes along with ZSECURE-I-566. The zSecure suite has several toolsets to cleanup the RACF DB. One area of cleanup is unused/inactive permissions. Access Monitor does track when a permission has been used and provides a tool to remove the...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

zERT Report as well the timestamp

As all records that are loaded into zERT to analyze in the zOSMF Plugin do contain a timestamp, it must be possible to report on the time as requested here as well ZOS-I-3473 but additionally when running a report over few days or a single day, zE...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

ADRDSSU RESTORE to allow target system SMS attributes

While running z/OSMF PSI to install z/OSv2r5, Job IZUD05UZ invokes GIMUNZIP which calls ADRDSSU to RESTORE the zFS data set. Unfortunately the target data set always get the DATACLAS value from the source data set. Thus the target zFS gets the DAT...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

IEBCOPY PDSE Member Generations Unload

IEBCOPY supports the ability to unload/reload a PDS to/from a sequential dataset. This is very useful for backup and transport. With the new GENS=ALL support for PDSE member generations the user expects to be able to do the unload/reload for their...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

RTM fencing storage for CANCEL command per TS014858949

Per TS014858949, we are requesting RTM fencing off a piece of storage to be able to issue the CANCEL command when memory is an issue. This sounds practical and safe to implement, and we could benefit from such an improvement.
10 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Not under consideration

CSSMTP Check SMTP Mail Addresses

CSSMTP does not have a function to control the usage of Sender- and Destination Mail addresses specified in the SMTP-Headers (for example MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO:, FROM:, TO:, etc.). The check must be based on the RACF user ID with which the JES spool...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

FTP server: use of UID(0)

The z/OS Communications server documentation states FTP Server has security requirements specified as needing UID(0). However, I have found (running on a zPDT) that the FTP server runs sucessfully without UID(0).I have observed other sites running...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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