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Share PDSE cross sysplex

Enhancement of PDSEs to be able to be shared cross sysplex. Currently, PDSE could not be shared outside a SYSPLEX.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future 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

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

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

Is IBM health check VSAMRLS_TVS_ENABLED still required under zOS v3.1 ?

Now that DFSMStvs is included in the base install of zOS v3.1, health check VSAMRLS_TVS_ENABLED excepts as it now finds the product installed but not enabled. I suspect the majority of zOS customers do not enable this now free product? so would ha...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 2 Under review

LE AMODE 31/64 interoperability environment: use of ILC in parallel threads in Java

We want to be able to use the Java batch framework for parallel processing on z/OS in the same way as on other operating systems.We need to execute the batch on z/OS when we have to call COBOL modules for business functionality. The opportunity to...
3 months ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under 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