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z/OS

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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

Provide option to specify time zone for all z/OSMF logs

Provide a configuration parameter to set the time zone so that the time in the IZUG0.log and many other logs are in sync with the time in many other software and SYSLOG.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

TCPIP Sysplex Autonomics with CSM constrain

VTAM CSM FIXED Storage arise 80% CONSTRAIN situation due to a high demand of TCP workload with 4 OSA 10 Gb interfaces. But returns to a level under 80% immediately. This situation repeats more than 1000 times in 2 hours.TCPIP Sysplex Autonomics do...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide optional tagging parameter for zOSMF Files API

Currently, there is no capability to set a file tag when creating a file using the zOSMF REST API for files. Adding an optional parameter to set the tag of the created file will ensure that the file lands in USS with the appropriate tag (when requ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Increase or remove DFSMSdss 255 SYSIN statement limit

DFSMSdss has a limit of 255 SYSIN statements per execution. This limits to ~200 the number of datasets in any one execution of COPY or RESTORE with individual RENAMEU statements, even when using DATASET(FILTERDD(name)).
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Improve Health Check for RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION

We run ISKLM server on z/OS to maintain tape encryption keys. Expired certificates should stay in then keyring until they are not used anymore. Expired certificates possibly stay a long time in the keyring. RACF_CERTIFICATE_EXPIRATION becomes seve...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Future consideration

Healthcheck XCF_CDS_SPOF should be customizable via Healthcheck framework

The check IBMXCF,XCF_CDS_SPOF checks once every hour for single points of failure in CDS configuration. It also tells you once every hour, if you bought a machine with only one CPU drawer, that this indicates a SPOF. There is an option to ignore t...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

TCP/IP leaves the group EZBTCPCS with the message *EZZ9676E and It is not able to rejoin it again.

After a lack of ECSA in a member of a 4-way sysplex, TCP/IP leaves it with the message *EZZ9676E and It is not able to rejoin the XCF group again.Even when we have GLOBALCONFIG SYSPLEXMONITOR AUTOREJOIN options active and the problem that caused t...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 13 Not under consideration

Make IEBCOPY return codes consistent with documentation

When IEBCOPY hits certain warning conditions it issues a message such as IGW01557W MEMBER FOO NOT COPIED BECAUSE THE NAME ALREADY EXISTS IN THE OUTPUT DATASET CAUSING A COPY GROUP NO-REPLACE CONFLICT. "W" messages such as this are documented in ht...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

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