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Replace some of the basic IEFUTL functionality with PARMLIB parameters

Everyone is trying to reduce their reliance on assembler exits due to the lack of assembler resource available these days. We use IEFUTL to override when batch jobs are cancelled by the JWT parameter in SMFPRMxx and nothing more. I'm sure it would...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Make workflow variable exportable to reuse them as input file

At the moment, the only possibility to save the variables of a workflow is to write a script, which writes them into a file by executing the echo command for every variable. This is not handy at all if you have a lot of variables. It would be grea...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

TCP/IP profile NETACCESS with hostname

TCP/IP PROFILE NETACCESS statements can only use ipv4_addr/num_mask_bits, ipv4_addr address_mask or ipv6_addr/prefixlength to identify a network, subnetwork or host. We also would like the ability to specify a hostname that can be related to whate...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

IPSEC enablement for OSPFv2 with IPv4 to allow for stronger authentication required by the US Government.

Currently, the OSPF Neighbor peering for our US Government contracts leverage MD5 today. We have an open audit finding stating ---> Since MD5 is vulnerable to 'birthday' attacks and may be compromised, routing protocol authentication must use F...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Support SHAREOPTIONS when creating a VSAM with JCL

We are trying to use the JCL DD statement to create some VSAM Data Sets to remove the extra IDCAMS DEFINE steps in some jobs. It is working quite well, especially if we are using the LIKE parameter to get most of the properties from 'model' VSAMs....
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 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

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

IFASMFDL RC=8 when error in LOGSTREAM

When there is an error when reading the LOGSTREAM, so that it is not safe that all requested data is present, the return code should be 8 instead of 4 because RC=4 indicate only a warning.RC=8 indicate an error. In our case we got a MSG 'IFA819I E...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ISPF Edit access to Edit Info/Msg/Note records

Using ISPF Edit one can access all standard records but the Info/Msg/Note records are currently hidden to the Edit macro. Having access would provide additional capabilities to exploit these messages.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

IEBCOPY Member Generations - Add/Merge option

With the new IEBCOPY CPYGRP GENS=ALL the REPLACE option will first delete the copy member and generations from the target and then perform the copy. That eliminates the member and generations in the target which is counter intuitive considering th...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Planned for future release

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