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Slayte AHA Test Aug 26

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 08/26/2024 Submitter Name: Slayte Admin USER Submitter Email: admin@slayte.com Description: Test
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Future consideration

Consistent gdkdel response across cloud providers when object not found

AWS returns HTTP 204 (No content) for an object delete when the object is not found. The 204 HTTP response is a successful HTTP response (200 series) and due to that, gdkdel returns its successful return code 0. The gdkdel API documents the follow...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Under review

Add a parameter to control the time allowed between IPLs in different CPCs (message ILR031A)

Hello, (We use z/OS 2.5 and GDPS 4.6) We use GDPS to perform DR scenarios. In our DR scenario testing, we've mastered the process and can now perform the whole process in less than 20 minutes. We currently DR the Production systems in 21-22 minute...
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Not under consideration

zOSMF Enforce Default save location for all workflows

There is no possibility to define or enforce a default save location for all users. Each User can save a workflow to any location where he/she was write access to. As this can produce a complete mess and no one have an overview about all workflows...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Have IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME process whole VSAM SPHERE's

It would be very useful if a new optional SPHERE parameter could be included for an IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME of VSAM datasets so the rename function is applied to the whole sphere associated with the base cluster, or at least it's Data and Index Compo...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Improve ISPF 3.17 by allowing CD on the command line

ISPF 3.17 (UDList) is a useful tool but navigating can be improved by allowing the user to enter a change directory command on the command line. This would mean that the command line would need to allow mixed case text to be entered.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

Enhance LISTDSI to support Relative GDGs

Enhance LISTDSI to support Generation Data Sets with relative GDG.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

DFSMS, SREAD OVER VOLUMES depending upon volume-status and free-space

'Spread over volumes' allocated always on the volumes at the beginning of a storagegroup, regardless of volume-status : QUINEW,ENABLE and free-space. If it supported the behavior of primary allocation over multiple volumes no longer differs from o...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

RACF Profiles with WARNING: Enable restriction of maximum WARNING access level for better security

Current situation:RACF-Profiles have the ability of WARNING-Option, which gives a ICH408-message, but allow the access regardless of the access rights of the User. Our idea is to enhance the WARNING option with a maximum access level parameter,lik...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CFRM Policy Editor to Model Impact of a CF Being Unavailable

The primary reason for using Parallel Sysplex is to improve application availability. A key element to achieving that objective is avoid Single Points of Failure. One aspect of that is controlling placement of CF structures in relation to the syst...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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