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Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Upgrade to the BPXPRM## syntax checker

Please add a check to the syntax checker for BPXPRM* parmlib member. If a /* is entered and another /* is entered please note at least a message that an */ was not seen before the /*.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / USS 2 Not under consideration

Provide the ability for DSS to be able to scratch and reallocate an in use (ENQed) dataset that is not the actual dataset in use during a logical copy operation.

System programmers who maintain indirectly cataloged datasets on a maintenance sysres / sysres set that gets cloned to an IPLable sysres set.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 5 Future consideration
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Full ISPF Support for PDSE V2 Generations

ISPF needs to fully support PDSE V2 generations. Currently ISPF Edit supports creating a new generation when a member is saved but none of the other ISPF services recognize a generation. Access to prior generations is not intuitive and thus effect...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 9 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Add more options to "fixing"

The generation of RACF commands to "fix" the security settings is a great new feature. However, we like to suggest some improvements: - do not generate a new discrete profile but check for the best-matching profile instead (maybe let the user deci...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: New feature to remove authorizations

Currently, "fixing" a security definition via SCA allows to add a user or group to a profile. We would like to have a new feature to: - list who is currently authorized for access to a specific resource - generate RACF commands to remove certain u...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow the specification of multiple BPXPRM parmlib member suffixes in the "SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK=" MVS command

We have our OMVS defnitions split up in several BPXPRMxx parmlib members. It would be very handy if I could check the whole configuration for syntax errors with a single command e.g. "SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK=(A1,B2,C3)", the same way I can specify the...
4 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Capability to test OSA QDIO infrastructure (MAC and IP address) without IPL'ing a system.

We have run into multiple issues when we change out hardware, where OSAs are not operational when we go to move and operate from our DR site. We need the capability of testing OSA IP address and MAC connectivity to switches without IPL'ing a z/OS ...
19 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 0 Under review

Have one (instead of multiple) syntax rules for DEVSUPxx

The +-30 statements in DEVSUP are parsed using multiple (at least 2) sets of rules. e.g. some statements are limited to 4 blanks around the equal sign, while others have no limit. The Initialisation and Tuning Reference specifically says blanks ar...
19 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 0 Under review

AI-Powered WLM - New feature: WLM Service class

Every working day, during the first 5-10 minutes of our main EOD processing (batch), the WLM service classes of online transactions have very bad Performance Index (>4). We would like a similar feature to the new AI-Powered Initiators to protec...
19 days ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Submitted

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