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z/OS

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    104 VOTE

    Add Ability to install new products into existing CSI with z/OSMF Software Management

    We would need a way to install new products into an existing SMP CSI_ using z/OSMF Software Management.For us, it would be sufficient, if z/OSMF under the covers installs the product into a temporary new CSI and then offers the option to merge tha...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

    Messages to note which phase of automatic space management is running, such as extent reduction, expire data sets, etc..

    HSM executes many functions when automatic space management begins. The customer would like to see a message issued when HSM performs one of the individual functions of "PASS 1". It performs the following under "PASS 1".Pass 1 of DFSMShsm-managed ...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Under review

    make z/OS FTP does support MLSD

    z/OS FTP does not support MLSD, therefore, in Filzilla and other FTP clients, files with more than 99 exdents are not displayed in the file list, with MLSD this would be possible
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

    Usage of the "Common Plattform Enumeration" (CPE) for IBM Products in the "IBM Z an LinuxOne Security Portal" within Resource link

    Given that vulnerability and patch management is not only a concern of the z ecosystem in an organization, the software to manage vulnerability data should be able to handle sources and vulnerabilities for multiple platforms. Therefore a standardi...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / General 5 Not under consideration

    Deliver security / integrity / vulnerability notification information in a consistent field delineated format

    Security / integrity and vulnerability notifications may be difficult to obtain, assess, correlate and act upon. Format and delivery mechanisms are obtuse, inconsistent at an industry level or may be missing altogether. Leaving each customer expos...
    12 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Future consideration
    155 VOTE

    Add recovery function for REWIND/LOCATE failure on tape job.

    System: z/OS Actor : user needing stronger fault tolerance Description: One of the reason why our customer uses z/OS is its storng fault tolerance. Especially, in multi-path einvironment they expect that I/O job will normally continue its process ...
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

    Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

    JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Future consideration

    Allow modification of the core_pattern in zCX.

    Currently the core_pattern (/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern) in zCX contains string “|/usr/sbin/event-daemonCoreDump.sh %e %p %s” even though /usr/sbin/event-daemonCoreDump.sh is not supplied by IBM. This prevents capturing core dumps in containers.
    3 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    Support Compression for zCX-VSAM Files

    We want to compress the data from zCX at runtime to minimize the I/Os and the used space on DASD. For Pervasive Encryption it is recommended to compress data before encryption. For zFS VSAM-LDS Files it is possible to compress by using zfsadm comm...
    10 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

    Adding ONLYAT support in IRRSEQ00 and IRRSMO00

    It's not an uncommon scenario that one LPAR is in an RRSF network but needs to have differences between it and other systems, so it would be really useful if the IRRSEQ00 and IRRSMO00 callable services supported the ONLYAT keyword, so we can autom...
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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