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Support rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine

Rebuild z/VM BFV virtual machine from the same image of the original one, and re-use the same userid as before, just create new bootable volume as new root disk of the rebuilt virtual machine.
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

HCD device ADD LIKE enhancement

Currently the ADD LIKE function for devices functions differently for 3390B devices than 3390D devices. Specifically in the case where you ADD LIKE a 3390B intending for it to retain the address but in a new CU that you intend to connect to a diff...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / HCD 4 Future consideration

More informative messages on RACF error

Issuing the TSO command "racmap" is producing the following message in the TSO session: Abend 684000 hex occurred processing command 'RACMAP '.ISPD210 CMD abended - 'RACMAP' terminated abnormally. This abend is actually 2 codes 684 system abend an...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Determine why User ID is REVOKED. Excessive Password Violations or Administrative Revoke

Note: It was suggested I open this RFE with RACF and zSecure. There will be 2 identical RFEs one for each product. There is no way to determine why a User ID is REVOKED. When an administrator looks at a User ID that is revoked, there is not anyway...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

zCX - Externalize failure information to the joblog

Hello, zCX generates FFDC files when a problem is experienced and in the above case zCX restarted. There is no indication of the nature of the problem in the joblog, just that FFDC dumps were captured and zCX was restarted. We have to open a case ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Using DSFS to delete PDSE member generation uses wrong STOW

Using DSFS to delete a pdse member with member generations incorrectly uses the STOW type D instead of DG. Thus deleting the base member while leaving all member generations as orphans.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 3 Future consideration

Propagate HMC certificates to defined CPCs to allow LDAP login with secure certs.

In the conversations with IBM, the following appears to be the recommended path and we are good with this approach. We need to ensure that users (including IBM techs) can log into the Support elements using trusted AD-LDAP and our Privileged User ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Allow Sort Work (Temp datasets) to go multi volume

Could you please enhance DFSMS DFSORT to allow work files (Sort work/temporary files) created during SORT processing to go multi volume. Other temporary datasets can now go multi volume apart from SORT work datasets.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

DFSMS Storage group Analysis

DFSMS Storage Group Analysis : Currently, there is no way to check the allocations of a DFSMS Storage Group during a specific period. This makes it difficult to understand the amount of allocation, free space, largest free cylinders ( in each volu...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Future consideration

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