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z/OS

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Remove limitation of 1500 entries in D RRS,UREX

From an RRS perspective the D RRS,UREX command does not show any URs when the count exceeds the limit of 1500 entries. D RRS,UREX ATR624I 11.00.42 RRS UR EXCEPTION SYSTEM URID WAIT FOR * Data truncated. DISPLAY RRS work area exceeded This is a des...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

Function requirement - To support TRANSKEY+WRAPENH3 keyword in KGUP utility

PCI-PIN spec defined the key storage need to use key block format when store key tokens. IBM announced the WRAPENH3 format to comply PCI-PIN requirement which should support different ways to store key as WRAPENH3 format, including Key Generator U...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Ability to send message to zOS Syslog from Docker container in zCX

In an attempt avoid custom code running on the z/OS side I'm simply using fluentd to format the messages then write them out to the USS syslog, which in turn is set to write them to the console. They're being written out fine but are all preceded ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 3 Future consideration

TSO DELETE should delete the PDSE base member and all generations

TSO Delete currently deletes the PDSE base member (generation 0) and leaves generations -1 and beyond as orphan/ghost members. Delete should delete the base and all generations - with an appropriate message See old idea ZOS-I-3593 this is a fairly...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Future consideration

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Add Master Catalog enqueue (or something) to prevent unexpected master catalog delete

We roll out maintenance through a rolling IPL process. Each maintenance IPL uses a rotating cycle of 2 or 3 sysres sets (call them A, B and possibly C), of which the oldest is built with the new maintenance each time. Part of this process is to al...
12 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Provide enanched, automatically manageable information on STP status

STP related errors are displayed in the syslog very early at IPL time, and this makes it difficult for them to be captured by automation and monitoring tools on the fly. We request to enhance the “”DISPLAY ETR” command in two ways: - Include more ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Timer 2 Not under consideration

BLKSize of 16KB is much less than TapeBlkSZLim of 256K

DFSMShsm only writes 16K-Blocks to Tape,both for Migration and Backup.Many of our files are greater ones, which would participate much of larger block sizes.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 7 Planned for future release

Allow DFSORT to run on zIIP

Enable EXCP access method for DFSORT and allow CPU processing for DFSORT steps to run on zIIP engines.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

[zOSMF] Visual extension of Resource Monitor

I want to be more convenient the ability to customize the dashboard.When I did a demonstration of zOSMF resource monitor for customers, we got opinions, such as the following. 1. Fix the maximum value of the graph axis.For graph axis is not fixed,...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RMF 3 Future consideration

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