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DFSMS, SREAD OVER VOLUMES depending upon volume-status and free-space

'Spread over volumes' allocated always on the volumes at the beginning of a storagegroup, regardless of volume-status : QUINEW,ENABLE and free-space. If it supported the behavior of primary allocation over multiple volumes no longer differs from o...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Request ZHMC to provide API for syslog server management

Currently, syslog server can be configured in ZHMC via GUI, but it can't be configured via API, which doesn't meet the requirement of interoperation. The purpose of configuring syslog server is to aggregate ZHMC logs to logging platform, which usu...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Add a parameter to control the time allowed between IPLs in different CPCs (message ILR031A)

Hello, (We use z/OS 2.5 and GDPS 4.6) We use GDPS to perform DR scenarios. In our DR scenario testing, we've mastered the process and can now perform the whole process in less than 20 minutes. We currently DR the Production systems in 21-22 minute...
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Not under consideration

CSSMTP needs to redrive DNS lookup other than at startup

Current CSSMTP functionality only resolves DNS names to IP addresses on product startup. PMRs and questions have led to responses that indicate the implementation ignores the DNS time to live (TTL) parameters and, quoting from the PMR, "... elimin...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

DIRMAINT needs to do additional RACF commands when creating a new virtual machine

DIRMAINT needs to do additional RACF commands when creating a new virtual machine. This is useful in a RACF environment using sitewide SECLABELs for mandatory access control. The commands affected would be DIRM ADD. An additional operand of SECLAB...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance message IFA016I with the root cause

There are numerous reasons a SMF dump program IFASMFDP USER exit might not be available, but the IFA016I message is a catch-all / generic message that does not provide any useful information (outside of an abend issue) which the user can use to di...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Stand-alone IOCP should honour the POCID-ID field of the dynamic token even if IOCDS source has been edited.

In IOCDS source generated by z/OS HCD the 'processor ID' is included as the first field in the 'TOK' parameter of the ID statement. If an IOCDS is generated by HCD calling IOCP directly or by stand-alone IOCP using un-modified IOCDS source importe...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Provide list-of-groups functionality for access checking RACF NODES profiles

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/12/2023 Submitter Name: Arthur J Gutowski (Mainframe Engineer) Submitter Email: Arthur.Gutowski@huntington.com Description: Provide the capability for RACF to validate access to NODES...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Provide a more granular control over timeout Abends (S522) than SMFPRMxx JWT/SWT/SWT

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/12/2023 Submitter Name: Arthur J Gutowski (Mainframe Engineer) Submitter Email: Arthur.Gutowski@huntington.com Description: Provide a more granular means of controlling / protecting j...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Separate message when configuring CHPID OFFLINE or ONLINE and CHPID is already offline or online

RBC is asking for a separate message when they CONIFG a CHIPD ONLINE or OFFLINE and the CHPID is already in that desired state. Currently, all it says is CONFIG processing is complete. For example:CHPID is ONLINE... CF CHP(85),OFFLINEIEE503I CHP(8...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

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