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Managing multiple CPM instances across multiple CECs & plexes

Allow CPM instances to communicate with each other to ensure only one instance per CEC is in Autonomic mode to remove the possibility of multiple instances from trying to activate capacity on the same CEC. Also, if the LPAR that is running the CPM...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

Batch Update of WLM Service Policy

I would like IBM to provide some sort of capability to add mass changes to WLM without having to enter the changes one by one via ISPF or zOSMF panels. Yhis is useful when making more than just a few changes, especially if you are doing things tha...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Need method to repair "admin" ID

The issue is that when logged in as the admin user that was built from the provision workflow, and /home/admin file/directory permissions get changed, including .ssh to something that SSH doesnt like, causes subsequent SSH logins to fail. Since th...
4 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Allow 'su' to inherit options from the parent shell

Hello IBM, Without the 2nd 'errexit', the script below continues further execution, despite /var/xxxxxxxxxxx being non-existent ('su' does not inherit the 1st 'errexit'). If the commands following the 'su' are dangerous, system-wide actions (not h...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

Add Client/Server role indicator into ZERT SMF 119 Subtype 11 Records

The SMF 119 Subtype 11 record (ZERT Detail) does not have any indcation of whether z/OS is the client or server for the connection. This indicator DOES exits in the SMF 119 Subtype 12 (ZERT Summary) records, fields SMF119SS_SAServer , SMF119SS_SAC...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

RRSF TCPIP stack affinity

We use RRSF on LPARs with multiple TCPIP stacks. Currently there is no way to set stack affinity so that RACF only binds to a particular stack. Without stack affinity, outbound RRSF connections initiated from a system with multiple TCPIP stacks ma...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Future consideration

Sysplex Distributor decisions monitoring

We consider to implement new settings of sysplex distributor for WAS and DDF workloads. According to manuals, in DISTRIBUTED mode it cooperates with WLM, which assigns weights to each DVIPA network address separately. https://www.ibm.com/support/k...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Increase the 1024 entry hard limit for CDT entries

Currently, there is a documented hard limit of 1024 CDT entries (ICHRRCDX entries+ICHRRCDE entries+CDT definitions) Right now, if you reach that limit, your only option is to delete some class definitions to make room for new ones. I've reached th...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Please add support for generating a Certificate Signing Request with email address (/E=email@xyz.com)

Today you can't make a RACDCERT GENCERT with an email address in the SUBJECTSDN, as you can using other certificate tools. RACF supports the email address, if it comes in a Certificate from an external source like EKMF, Windows etc.. We experience...
9 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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