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    z/OS LDAP Support for AT-TLS

    z/OS LDAP should either add support for AT-TLS or provide instructions for using LDAP while AT-TLS is active.
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

    The user must have the ability to keep a dataset in zEDC compressed format during a copy or a transfer of the dataset.

    I would like to have a way to request access method to avoid decompression of a zedc compressed dataset when using it, for example via a jcl option. This would avoid unnecessary compression - decompression when dataset are accessed by product doin...
    almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Planned for future release

    (MUFG) Request to improve the problem of long processing time of rmm addvolume with TS7700

    Since rmm addvolume processing with TS7700 takes 8 times as long as Oracle VSM environment, we hope to improve it so that it can be processed in a short time.
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Planned for future release

    DSS should support all functions for the cloud too

    Within HSM I recognized that DSS is not migrating some datasets to the cloud because of its limitations. In my case: ADR600E, RC=7, The data set is a VSAM data set where the high used RBA equals the high allocated HBA. First I thought it's an erro...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Planned for future release

    DFSort support for non-extended encrypted files

    Our company intends to use pervasive encryption to encrypt our mainframe datasets, but DFSort currently does not support non-extended encrypted files. It is crucial that this support is implemented since all our sorting is done through DFSort and ...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Planned for future release

    Allow IDCAMS to INITIALIZE a VSAM dataset during (or after) DEFINE

    CICS is unable to open newly defined empty VSAM datasets as it requires at least one CI to be formatted. To overcome this requires use of an OEM or open source program (VSAMINIT is the common one) to write and then delete a record in the VSAM data...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Planned for future release

    SRB enhancement to support CBU operations

    Our customer activates CBU during IPL at DR site and they issue CONFIG CP ONLINE command to add reserved zIIP. They decided to exploit SRB functionality on new system to expect accelerated IPL on new system. When they tested CBU procedure on new s...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Planned for future release

    Include RMF field at PROCU Screen Monitor III and OMEGAMON

    We are replacing our monitor by OMEGAMON and we are missing a field in RMF and OMEGAMON. We are using RMF PROCU (Processor Usage) screen and have the field Total CPU Time in mSec. We would like to suggest having more fields describing this CPU Tim...
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Planned for future release

    Storage group: Total space Alert threshold% feature

    With zOS 2.2, there is a new field added to storage group: Total Space Alert Threshold% which gives us alerting on console. I liked this feature, but when tested, seems the total space is being calculated for only ENABLED volumes and ignoring QUIN...
    almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Planned for future release

    AUTOIPL CHANGE for LPAR ACTIVATION

    WE would like to have AUTOIPL processing incorporate a deactivate on activate of the lpar that is being REIPL. This should be and option in the DIAGXX member, like you now have for reconfigurable storage.This process is now been done by our BMCsof...
    almost 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Planned for future release

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