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PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION monitor *MASTER* address space

Check PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION should monitor *MASTER* storage exhaustion.Usually when the master address space storage exhausts an IPL is needed to recover. This would not be necessary if PFA had alerted on the gradual storage inflation cau...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 1 Planned for future release

zCX restart capability

Provide the ability to restart zCX. E-mails have been sent to the zCX team.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Add a Plugin to Execute Scripts (Python, Shell) from z/OSMF Desktop Interface

When using z/OSMF as a management tool, through the Desktop interface, there is currently no way to access Unix System Services (USS) outside of using the ISPF Plugin. When editing a shell script or Python script, I have to swap between z/OSMF and...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ADD STGADMIN profile to allow EXPORT of catalog without the need to have ALTER access on catalog name

ADD STGADMIN profile to allow EXPORT of catalog without the need to have ALTER access on catalog name
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Make DAE - ADYSET00 possible to supress SYSUDUMP the same way as SYSMDUMP can be supressed today.

When we get problems in our Environment with a lot of SYSUDUMPs produced and filling up our SPOOL volumes. Then we would like to have the possibility that DAE - ADYSET00 can supress all our SYSUDUMP's. This can avoid that all our spool volumes to ...
12 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Provide support for IKED/NSSD for PassPhrases or Protected in RACF

Our organization is migrating from a password to passphrase environment. Our userids for the IKED and NSSD started tasks have passwords. We would like to make these IDs RACF PROTECTED or be able to use a PassPhrase. But it seems via the case that ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Allow for no accounting information in z/OSMF

Hello, We are requesting for it to be possible to use z/OSMF functions (e.g. rest api's) without the need to define accounting info.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

TSO ALLOC Support for PDSE V2 Member Generations

With the introduction of PDSE V2 Libraries that support Memeber Genrations there is a need to have the ability to access the generations in the same way that members are accessed. The TSO ALLOC (Allocate) command is one important interface that ne...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / TSO 8 Future consideration

creation of a new read-only variable: &LIKE(Yes/No) for the ACS routine

With the LIKE parameter in JCL the following read-only variables are not available in the ACS-routines. &DSNTYPE &DSORG &MAXSIZE &RECORG &SIZE I would like to have a new read-only variable : &LIKE (YES/No) recognize that th...
12 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Support NORACF in Conjunction with MFA Keyword when using LISTUSER Command

Currently, using RACF's LISTUSER command does not support the MFA keyword when specified alongside NORACF. After opening a defect with z/OS Security Support, I was requested to submit an Idea. I believe the MFA segment should work as every other s...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

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