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    Include the dataset name in the IGW859I message text

    The Itau bank and IBM has a project to activate the DFSMStvs product to run on the GRBE (Itaú OLTP application) to support the online workload.So, it is very important to us to have an improvement for the message IGW859I, today this message doesn'...
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 6 Delivered

    Add GDG Extended Support to ISPF 3.2

    Add the ability to specify GDG Extended keyword and define more than 255 GDG LIMIT when using ISPF 3.2 - Option V for Data Type Generation Data Group
    about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Delivered

    Extended GDG causes space issues

    The LIMIT of 999 may be too high, not only for space reasons, but also for space management reasons.There are 3 major issues in the current implementation:1) Installations have no options in terms of limit the maximum number of GDGs. It is either ...
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Delivered

    rm -r protection when spanning multiple file systems

    A user accidentally issued an rm -r .* * command from /The user was unaware that he did this. This deleted files across thousands of our USS file systems. There needs to be a warning message when this kind of destructive command is issued that spa...
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Delivered

    VLF currently doesn't write SMF41-3 in High CPU Usage times

    Currently, in situation where VLF needs much CPU, SMF41-3 records are not written. The reason for the high CPU could be different, like too large MAXVIRT, high load on catalogs, high frequency ACEE creation for example by Kerberos or whatever. SMF...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Delivered

    Copy/Paste Function in HMC Integrated ASCII Console

    Enable the Copy/Paste Function in HMC Integrated ASCII Console. So a user can copy or paste data between the ASCII console and their desktop (i.e., Windows Notepad). Today users have to manually type data that they wish to copy or paste. That make...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Delivered

    DSFS Improve IDFS00080I message

    When in the shell, either via OMVS or ssh, entering dsadm by itself results in the IDFS00080I message. This message instructs the user to type in IDFZADM help or IDFZADM hep -topic. The user enter dsadm and not idfzadm and probably has no clue wha...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 2 Delivered

    HMC LDAP authentication should recognize RACF GROUP to determine user Authority

    Currently the Z HMC supports RACF LDAP for local user authentication but the user must be locally defined. The users authority is also determined by locally defined definitions. The HMC code needs to be updated so RACF GROUPS can be defined for HM...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Delivered

    HMC Data Replication and IDAA Call-Home

    By design 'HMC Data Replication' does not synchronize definitions for IDAA Call-Home to other HMC's.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Delivered

    An enhancement or upgrade to allow support for SSO products, including SAM.

    My organization is moving from LDAP to SAML
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 4 Delivered

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