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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...
about 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

Allow cp command to access output PDS as DISP=SHR

Currently, the cp command, when copying to a PDS, accesses the library using DISP=OLD. It therefore fails if someone is editing a member in that PDS or even browsing it. Need a way to access the PDS using DISP=SHR, so the cp command will work in t...
9 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Not under consideration

Have "LU userid NORACF OMVS" show all OMVS fields

Unlike all other fields, the MEMLIMIT and SHMEMMAX fields are not shown unless an explicit value is set. This inconsistent behavior is confusing, and makes that you only learn about their existence when you stumble upon their definition in the docs.
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

IMPROVED METHOD TO REMOVE PATHS

We did the test to verify the effect of RECOVERY PATH_SCOPE=CU. The test case of one path busy got the expected result. 2-3 seconds after 'VARY ONLINE', the path of all devices under the same CU got offline. However, the two paths busy case did no...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

zERT - Support Filtering zCX traffic

A zERT rule must be able to manage and handle traffic targeting a docker container within zCX to align enforcement of used ciphers. zERT offers the great capabilities to manage which ciphers can be used but a running zCX remains being a black box ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Ability to remove or decrease the Passphrase Complexity for RACF

This would give the ability for Single Sign On which could utilize the Active Directory (Windows) as the PRA (Password Rules Authority) and create policies to control password complexity from AD. Currently RACF requires that we utilize a minimum o...
9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 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...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF NCA Automatically detect the z/OS release level of a system image

We need z/OSMF NCA to automatically detect the z/OS release level of a system image. At the moment this parameter has to be set manually on the main "Systems" tab (select properties on a System Image (LPAR).
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

HSM detaches lower level data mover tasks and produces hundreths of BPXP018I THREAD tttttt, IN PROCESS ppppp ENDED WITHOUT BEING UNDUBBED WITH COMPLETION CODE 0033E000 AND REASON CODE 00000000

During file backup we get hundreths of BPXP018I with COMPLETION CODE 0033E000. When this is the way how HSM works it would be great to change it and avoid all this messages as the backup function in HSM ends correctly. Putting the BPX018I into MPF...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

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