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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

Add VLAN tagging capability to OSA ICC in the advanced facilities configuration - z feature code 0455

The OSA 1GE cards do support VLAN tagging .. but the OSA-ICC “appliance” does not support VLAN tagging. UPS is requesting that VLAN Tagging support be added to the Advanced Facilities configuration option for the OSA-ICC server
10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 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

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

Add ability to include tags to the provisioned resources

Adding tags with metadata about the resources like Virtual Servers will help in large ICIC installations. These tags may be later used to filter resources in operations like inventory, billing, maintenance, automation and so on. Tags are defined b...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 4 Needs more information

zCX-Automate the change of IP address for the zCX instance for DR Testing purposes

We are looking for a way to automate the change of the zCX Instance IP address for DR Testing purposes where we change our DR IP addresses when performing DR network isolated tests.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

List all SEGMENTS from LISTUSER or LISTGRP command

Using RACF Commands LISTUSER and LISTGRP there is no way to list all the segments on the User ID or Group without listing each segment name on the command. The request is to allow the use of ALL on the LISTUSER or LISTGRP command to list all segme...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

BPX SYNTAXCHECK validation of FILESYSTYPE

As part of the work to migrate systems to z/OS 2.5, I believe many customers are converting HFS files to ZFS, and removing the related HFS definitions from BPXPRMxx. Recently we made a mistake of changing the FILESYSTYPE TYPE(HFS) statement to TYP...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

change HWI_STPCONFIG to return the External Timing Source Address as well.

We are required to provide evidence on a regular basis that the Mainframe is configured to use NTP timing. We want to automate the data collection for auditors. We use BCPii to pull back a lot of information about our systems, but while the HWI_ST...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

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