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Enhance OMVS cp command

Enhance the OMVS cp command by allowing the user to set an option, perhaps via an environmental variable, to increase the number of buffers used for the copy.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

Customer is requesting an RFE to provide a progress indicator for CFCC image activation.

Due to the large amount of storage we define in the CFCC image, it is taking 10 minutes or more for the CFCC Operating System Messages console to come up after we activate a CFCC image. The image activation itself that you initiate at the HMC comp...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Planned for future release

Create new "last login timestamp" attribute in LDAP for entries

RACF provides an attribute, LAST-ACCESS, which is mapped to racfLastAccess in SDBM which can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.glpa200/tivrff.htm#racfcf This searchable attribute returns th...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

Option To Set A Logoff Timer For Users Showing As Disconnected

We have noticed that when some users are in Adapter panels and LPAR Controls (Possibly others) evem if they only have view access that they seem to lock the task out so others cannot access it. This seems to then remain locked even when the userid...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Future consideration

Espansion problem on DB2 table allocated on Storage group with available free space

DB2 for z/OS does not elect to reuse the space that it freed up on the first volume of multivolume vsam dat set.DFSMS will not and cannot know it is available for reuse.Since the data set is a Linear Data Set, it is up to the application to determ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

New Parameter: Automatically terminate FTP data session with termination of FTP control session

Provide a parameter to indicate that an FTP dataconnection should be terminated if the associated control connection isterminated.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add syntax check to the Policy Agent image / parameter dataset

This function could catch syntax errors in the parameter dataset prior to implementation reducing potential outages.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Make CEETBCK statement_id parameter optional for performance reasons

In order to populate the statement_id parameter, CEETBCK needs to invoke the debug infrastructure, which can present considerable overhead if CEETBCK is frequently used ie. in non-error contexts. Passing a null pointer (OMITTED in the case of COBO...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Future consideration

FCIC JOB takes long time with msg IGD17291I.

When the client tries to take DB2 image copy by a use of FlashCopy, it takes very long time with msg IGD17291I.This IGD1729I message means, "when the initial allocation can not be satisfied on one volume, it will try to add additional volumes to t...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Warning about problems during code page conversion while uploading and downloading text data

Product: Zowe CLI, VS Code Extension for Zowe Actor: User editing data from z/OS datasets, members, or UNIX files on a workstation and using a different encoding than IBM-1047 on the mainframe (e.g. IBM-870, IBM-037, IBM-273...) in the text mode P...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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