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JES2 - Improve reaction to PROCLIB moves and Open/Close

In the above IBM Case we described a problem on one of our customer's system, whereby a PROC(00) data set was moved by the customer to a new volume and the catalogue entry adapted (DELETE & DEFINE NONVSAM). We do realise this is not a good thi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Duplicate key error can occur when copying with two different jobs at the same time with DFSMSdss-copy

Duplicate key error can occur when copying with two different jobs at the same time with DFSMSdss-copy datasets whose names start with the same 3 qualifiers and are on the same volume.This can occur if 2 different jobs try to move 2 different data...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Allow the dynalloc text unit 8017 (Unix PATH) to be more than 255 characters long

Dynamic allocation limits the length of a Unix path name (for text unit 8017) to 255 characters, in spite of the fact that the text unit length field is 16 bits (max of 65535). This should be relaxed.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Future consideration

Add missing data points for RMF III workload reports - MPL, SSCHRT and Delays

We are able to use RMF PP (or DDS) to check MPL, SSCHRT and Delays(IO, MPL, Q and AUX) for workloads(for service classes)- but couldn't find same values from RMF III. It would be beneficial to have same type/format of data points for RMF III as pr...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 1 Future consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP & RESTORE without data

Allow DFDSS DUMP & RESTORE to run with a 'NO DATA' option so that all the selected dataset attributes are DUMP'd but without any data. And then the RESTORE function should have an option to allocate the source datasets within any DUMP (whether...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 4 Future consideration

z/OSMF network configuration Assistant use cut/paste of multiple IP Addresses when creating Address Group in IPSEC policy

Ability to use notepad cut and paste to enter multiple ip addresses when creating an Address Group in ipsec policy gui interface of z/OSMF network configuration assistant.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Need support for AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) when using CDA

We are attempting to use CDA to write to an AWS S3 bucket. We had initial setup issues but resolved them. We were trying to request some information from the client about obtaining the SECRET KEY, and were told that process was not allowed because...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Automated intake of SMF data for zERT (zOSMF)

Currently SMF records are inserted per user interaction with the zERT Data-Interface. This has huge disadvantages: 1) Every SMF file has to be inserted by hand 2) The data will almost never be at "current level"For example: BMC Mainview takes in t...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Make String variable text box re-sizable

I created a string variable called "fileContent" and mapped it to the response body from a GET REST API call. The GET REST API reads the contents of a dataset member. My goal is to edit the file contents in the variable and do a PUT REST API to up...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

As in RFE ID 141306 suggested by IBM Systems Developer, I'll raise a RFE also for the z/OS Hyperswap component. z/OS Hyperswap should prevent a planned HyperSwap if a concurrent copy session is active. An unplaned HyperSwap should be possible of c...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

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