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Improve DSFS Help messages for readability

Improve DSFS help message to be more readable. Examples: Current dsadm createparm -help IDFS00090I Usage: IDFZADM createparm -path <path name> [{-pdsmodel <sub-directory parameters> | -psmodel <sub-file parameters>}] [-level] [-h...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

TCPIP Sysplex Ditributor SERVERWLM low weights management

We have a large database ( 6 DB2 members, more than 10000 DB2 transactions per second) where DDF TCP traffic is balanced with VIPA SERVERWLM algorithm. In normal condition WLM weights are high enough to spread new sockets in a balanced way. When t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 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

z/OSMF Function to send a broadcast message to all users of z/OSMF

There are times when the z/OS system needs to send a broadcast message to all users to inform them of some system event that is planned. The z/OS Operator SEND command does this for TSO users, as does the TSO SEND command. The shell wall command c...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

zCX: Make docker cli available as MODIFY command to the STC

Currently, we've to login to zCX to issue "docker" commands like docker logs to zCX. In an early phase like POC / testing this is no problem. But as we're continuing / have the first production applications running, Operators also have to work wit...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future 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

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

Keep message IKJ56474I USERID OR PASSWORD IS INCORRECT OR NOT AUTHORIZED to be held on the screen

When logging into TSO through TN3270, if the user ID or password is entered incorrectly, message 'IKJ56474I USERID OR PASSWORD IS INCORRECT OR NOT AUTHORIZED' briefly appears on the screen before disappearing after a few seconds. Our company audit...
3 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

Selectable items under Customizable Data Replication for User Profile Data

We would like to use Customizable Data Replication across all HMAs in two data centers to replicate passwords for local IDs (i.e. ACSADMIN, SERVICE) but each data center has unique User Patterns. Can the User Profile Data type have sub-categories ...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

DSFS Improve IDFS00080I message

When in the shell, either via OMVS or ssh, entering dsadm by itself results in the IDFS00080I message. This message instructs the user to type in IDFZADM help or IDFZADM hep -topic. The user enter dsadm and not idfzadm and probably has no clue wha...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

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