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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...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

SMP/E to update acceptable LKED PARMs / Binder Options

It has been found that DB2 High Performance Unload (HPU), under DB2 Tools, FMID HINZ510, is trying to use COMPAT=PM5 in their JCLIN's LKED Steps. SMP/E only accepts up to PM4. This is to request SMP/E allow all the available COMPAT options to be s...
5 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

JCL LIKE for PDSE Version and MAXGENS

In JCL, the DD LIKE parameter is used to specify the allocation attributes of a new data set by copying the attributes of an existing cataloged data set. One attribute it copies is the DSNTYPE parameter, which includes whether the model data set i...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 6 Future consideration

Enable VSAM browse/view from ISPF (without additional product such as File Manager)

Browse (and perhaps view) a VSAM dataset directly from ISPF without having to install an additional product such as File Manager
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Command output for LI DD,KVTS

We want to work with CUIR. In the output for the Command LI DD,KVTS, should be the jobname and the system name on wich the job is running displayed. We have several TS7700T shared with 21 lpars. It's difficult to find the currently mounted job.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Add SNMP v3 support for BCPii to communicate with Support Element

IT Security is very very important nowadays. SNMP v3 is a state of art security standard over SNMP v2. Right now, both HMC and SE support SNMP v3 for API call. Should enhance z/OS BCPii feature to support SNMP v3 as well.
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 1 Not under consideration

Addition of Subject Altnames to IRRDBU00 Unloads

Hello, We're creating some processes around reporting of SSL certificate information which involves parsing through an IRRDBU00 for certificate info, and Subject Altnames are not currently included in that unload. We're doing it this way partly to...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Extracting SMF in a single job step with a single pass of data

If I want to dump multiple different timeframes of data into an smf dataset I have to do it in multiple steps and mod'ing onto the output dataset For example if I want Type14 records from 2200 on 1st Jan to 06:00 on 3rd Jan I would have to do this...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future 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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Planned for future release

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

z/OSMF can generate and validate JWTs, but the JWTs are only valid with z/OSMF itself. If z/OSMF could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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