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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 ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

How to print the $HASP138 SPIN message written to CEEMSG to SYSLOG or JESMSGLG?

We split the CEEMSG DD of CICS with the following line:// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (UNALLOC, 10M)==> ceemsg output:08.38.16 S0310063 İHASP138 CEEMSG SPIN HAS OCCURRED BECAUSE OF LINE COUNT or we use "time":// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (U...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Create ISPF Panel (User Interface) for Web Enablement Toolkit

Create a simple ISPF Panels (User Interface) for Web toolkit JSON API's. This helps customers to play with JSON data without writing a separate program to use our api's to parse the JSON data. Example: User can just provide Sequential file as inpu...
5 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Display logging options in use for z/OSMF

With the 'F zosmfserver, D IZU' command only the logging options are displayed which z/OSMF has read from PARMLIB\ at startup.We need a way to display what logging options are effectively in actual use.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Move Policy Agent processing to above the bar to correct storage exhaustion errors during policy REFRESH/UPDATE

We are building an ipSecPolicy file for REFRESH/UPDATE into PAGENT for load to TCPIP for packet management. In defining our rules, we've found we have a very large Policy Agent definition file to cover such disparate issues as VIPA, DVIPA, Enterpr...
2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Manage Syslog Servers support UDP protocol

HSBC is planning to implement Z15 HMC function (Manage syslog server) to send a problem notifications from HMC to Mainframe system over UDP protocol (receive HMC problem event notifications on Syslogd logs). However, the UDP is not supported.
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

System Logger offload monitoring should create a diagnostic dump upon detection of an offload delay.

System Logger offload monitoring provides notification of delays in log stream offload processing with the goal of allowing an installation to take action to prevent log streams filling to capacity, which would result in the failure of IXGWRITE re...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Planned for future release

z/OS 3.1 SDSF and "FS - File systems OMVS" MOUNTPARM Truncated to 57 chars.

The z/OS OMVS MOUNTPARM: parameter can be up to 1024 characters long. Suggestion: 1. If not possible for SDSF to return the complete MOUNTPARM value up to 1024 then please tell this in the: SDSF Help Text panel ( F1 Help Key) Help-Text MOUNTPARM !...
10 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

RACF throttling logon attempts before revoking

Protecting users having a password/passphrase from denial of service attack by implementing a timeout value between the failed logon attempts.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

switch from IEFUSI to SMFLIM

Hi IBM, today we use IEFUSI to adjust Region Limit and Region Size for z/OS Address Spaces.With this Exit, we also make sure that we have a sufficiently large difference between Region Limit (LDALIMIT/LDAELIM) and Region Size (LDAVVRG/LDAEVVRG). z...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration