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Remove requirement for SZERO=YES

When VSAM was first introduced, the only way, without requiring changes to every ATTACH in the address space, to share user storage was to use subpool zero. Sharing subpool zero has unintended consequences for a task that (ABENDed) ended without f...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Future consideration

Add more specific archiving policies or workflows

By creating archiving concepts for configuration items, a viable archiving policy is mandatory. Today you have to choose between retention days (x)or a specified number of copies to keep. This forces the user to choose between two different types ...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Extension of the audit feature to cover individual content and download

Auditing is an important feature of IBM Change Tracker. Today, audits logs can be displayed manually by the Change Tracker Auditor. The audit information will be displayed by selecting menu icon on the corresponding dataset and click the “View Aud...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Dataset Groups with extended user profile specific filter possibilities

As of today, IBM Change Tracker has no grouping or categorization capability. By adding more and more datasets of different teams or departments to change tracker control, the list of managed datasets may grow a lot and become very confusing. Also...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Missing RACF Statistic (last connect date) when logging on with SESSION=OMVSSRV and SESSION=APPCTP

We need to monitor, if RACF users are active. So we verify the last connect date of user's default group every night. When last connect data is older than nn days, our night job will revoke this user profile. If the user still needs this profile, ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

CLONE master catalog ,using ibm utilities, to an alternate name with no internal updates.

The option to switch from one master catalog to another.... staging for future ipls.
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Need job submitter userid in memory resident location

To obtain the job submitter of a job requires disk i/o to get the JCTTOKEN out of the JCT for the job and then use RACROUTE REQUEST=TOKENMAP against the JCTTOKEN to convert the security token into human readable text that is mapped by the ICHRUTKN...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

JES2 Policy - enhancement

z/OS2.4 has brought up great function of JES2 Policy however there are many fields which are not modifiable and bring a constrain in the way if we like to replace our jes2 exits. One of the example is SYSOUTGROUP where XMITTER field is not mention...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

RACF Granular Control for encryption of basic and large format datasets

Allow RACF Dataset Profiles with an encryption key in the DFP segment to provide a flag for whether basic or large format datasets should be encrypted.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Implement -h (human readable) option for file related commands (ls, df, du ..)

hi there, since we don't get the luxury of GNU Tools on z/OS USS i would at least expect an option for human readable output for the basic file related commands (ls, df, du ..). this is something *NIX distributions got decades ago, why not USS? Tr...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

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