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z/OS

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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 ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Encryption Facility must display the Key id used to decypher a message

When we receive an OpenPGP document (message), it is decypher by IBM Encryption Facility. Only two messages are displayed by the tool : CSD0779I Signature by key ID 7FCA32ED59C06F76 is valid.CSD0051I Command processing has completed successfully. ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

APPC

During situations where IMS floods with transactions the flood control is active by default and IMS will take action if thresholds are reached. If the number of APPC requests that are queued in 64-bit storage exceeds 1,000,000. IMS stops all APPC ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_APPC 0 Future consideration

Request to have su capability added to BPXBATCH

Native BPXBATCH su capability is required to execute system component installation scripts and is often requested for other reasons as well. Please enhance BPXBATCH to include native su capability.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Dual Control at zOS (for destructive activities)

Many System programmers and Administrators on zSystems have authority to delete data. Often they also have authority to Access DASD Subsystems(DS8*) or tape Subsystems (TS77/TS45). It would be good to have the possibility to allow destructive acti...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS General/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Support for include/exclude lists in automount facility

We'd like the ability to select/exclude which systems are assigned automove=Y automounted file systems in the /etc/u.map parameter file.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Health check enhancement for XCF_CDS in a zOS Hyperswap environment managed by CSM

The existing checks XCF_CDS_SPOF and XCF_CDS_SEPARATION don't check in a HyperSwap environment that primary CDSes and alternate CDSes are on separate DASD boxes of different sites. An extention should check the site information of the HyperSwap se...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

TSO RECEIVE support for DSNTYPE keyword

Allow XMIT files of a PDS to be restored to DSNTYPE(LIBRARY). That is, after command "RECEIVE INDS(xmit.dataset)" is issued, allow response to be "DA('new.pdse.name') DSNTYPE(LIBRARY)" and RECEIVE will allocate the new PDSE with DSNTYPE=LIBRARY be...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Extend JES2 SSI to return INTRDR settings like AUTH and CLASS

Please add an API extension (presumably in SSI 82) to be able to obtain the current JES2 INTRDR (template) settings as modified by $T INTRDR. Specifically AUTH is urgently needed, but more settings like CLASS are welcome.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Multiple OMVS file for STDENV

I would like use multiple OMVS file for STDENV. Usage of concatenate file in MVS environment for STDENV is authorise but not for the OMVS file.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

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