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z/OS

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RACF batch utility to cleanup expired certificates

To Develop a RACF utility to cleanup/delete expired certificates in the RACF database with parameters specifying the expiration date & older.The date parameter specification/s can be a (-) minus 365 days from the current date. Just to elaborat...
11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF: Make IZUG.log messages eligible to be sent to the operlog by parmlib member

z/OSMF messages (of all types; informational, warning, error, severe) are currently all writen to the IZUG0.log in its own unix directory /global/var/zosmf/data/logs/.z/OSMF currently does not issue any messages to the syslog/operlog. (with a few ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

When TCPIP stack encountered outbound errors which should produce alert messages for user.

This idea is related to IBM support case TS010912081 that the customer HKEX thought TCPIP should produce alert messages for user when it is encountering outbound type errors.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Saving job output from Deployment Jobs in zOSMF Software Management

Currently, the zOSMF Deployment Jobs task has no capability to actually save the various job output(s) to a dataset.Can use the SDSF XDC command to capture the job output(s), which is a very manual process, but was wondering if it can all be drive...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Z/OS PARMDD to support started task parameter

Please have PARMDD support started task parameter
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 0 Future consideration

REDO

Add support for ISPF EDIT command REDO. Sometimes we go too far using UNDO. It would be nice to have a REDO option.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

HSM improvement related to the ARCMDEXT EXIT and new parameter request

The Itau bank has 2 very large Sysplexes Bank and Cards.The Bank environment has a heavy batch workload that relies on the HSM task. The batch processing has a lot of GDG datasets.The Itau is using the EXIT ARCMDEXT to inform the HSM during the mi...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Merge Library SYS1.SDWWDLPA into SYS1.LPALIB

If module DWW1VS00 (alias DWW1SCSR) is not present on LPA at IPL time we will get an abend X'0C4'. That is not an obvious problem to be solved, because the message does not indicate a library missing. The Library SYS1.SDWWDLPA is critical to IPL t...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 3 Future consideration

zERT SMF import from tape dataset

Currently, zERT can import SMF119 record only from DASD.All our SMF dumps are migrated to tape dataset after a couple of days later.We have to run JOB to copy tape SMF data to DASD then import into zERT.It will be helpful if we can import tape SMF...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Enable DIAGxx operator command parameter modification function

The ability to be able to issue an Operator command would enable real-time dynamic modification to the individual DIAGxx parameters without the need (or permission/authority) to update a PARMLIB member. This would also enable automation code (Rexx...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Not under consideration

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