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Have IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME process whole VSAM SPHERE's

It would be very useful if a new optional SPHERE parameter could be included for an IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME of VSAM datasets so the rename function is applied to the whole sphere associated with the base cluster, or at least it's Data and Index Compo...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Use SAVE on LPAR View Attached Devices panel

After selecting an LPAR using the View Attached Devices (u) option it would great if the SAVE command could be used on the subsequent "View Partition / Devices" panel to allow the list to be saved to output dataset. The SAVE command is not availab...
9 months ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

zCX Classic (Docker): Allow complete Automation of the workflow (at least update workflow)

If the zCX image is upgrade with z/OS maintenance, there is a ++HOLD ACTION to do the zCX upgrade workflow to apply the changes done by the PTFs. Currently, this has to be done manually because of enforced manual steps in the workflow. In general,...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future 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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

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