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For HLQ's without a pdsmodel or psmodel configured, pass an undefined allocation over to DFSMS to handle it

This is useful for two reasons. 1) With the current limitation of the dsadm createparm command not allowing its use only when USERID EQ HLQ, which is in itself a terrible restriction.2) Without having a pdsmodel or psmodel configured for that HLQ,...
3 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Provide mechanism to view security environment of every address space in System.

Need utility to view security environment of address spaces. This should include as a MINIMUM the RACF user assigned to the address space. However, other items such as the readable items in the ACEE, attributes (SPECIAL, OPERATIONS and so on), POE...
20 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

today there are IRA206I messages that come out showing the top users of storage when you have an Aux storage shortage. But would like to know who is consuming storage Before we run out.

Ideally, we would like to know the top users consuming storage if we hit the 50% limit. (instead of waiting until we hit the critical limits) so when this message is issued, it would be nice to have the IRA206I message issued. IRA205I 50% AUXILIAR...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

Modify IKJPARS so that the parse service routine obtain storage above the line

DFSMSrmm is not able to load a large defaults table. DFSMSrmm is abending with S878 and in some cases DFSMSrmm can't be restartet and an IPL is needed. See the details in case TS016867492. We have converted a retention file with 13.300 entries to ...
7 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

Provide more diagnostic data for Coupling Express Long Reach Adapter Ports

When verifying connectivity of multiple Coupling Express ports,it's time consuming to obtain information such as Tx and Rx power levels to diagnose the health of connections and requires the user to click through various panels on each adapter to ...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Add a DD card for LIST to have the ability to format the report and use it by sorting tools

If I do not know in advance the name of the file in the Bucket (if it is time-stamped or if it has a random variable part in its name) I cannot recover it unless I make a LIST + identify the file to be taken. This LIST returns the contents of the ...
21 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Future consideration

RACF should prioritize checking certificates with longer validity periods in the keyrings.

Opening a new idea (RFE) since IBM changed the status of ZOS-I-4249 to Not under consideration Why is it useful: Let's consider an example: CustomerX provides a new subCA to Visa for installation as a trusted entity because one of their subCAs, sa...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 13 Future consideration

LFAREA 2GB pages not supported

z/OS client running under z/VM requires to use large pages memory to run their DB2, Openshift, Splunk and other consumers applications. as an example; z/OS client is coded this way : LFAREA=(1M=16896,2G=(16,10))
4 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Syntax check for configuration member

It would be great to have an option to verify syntax of configuration members, namely ATCCON, ATCSTR, to prevent any possible issues to be found out only during IPLs, which are often done during weekends and resolution of such issues can be slowed...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

JES2 Performance Enhancements

In order to improve the robustness of JES2 during heavy workload processing spikes, whether intentional or unintentional, we would like to make the following proposal: An AI solution for anomaly detection with corresponding definable actions Addit...
2 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration