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This item is not in our plans but is being kept in our backlog.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - z Systems Software
Product - z/OS Communications Server
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Enterprise Networking
Product - z/OS Communications Server
Have you considered exploiting the GLOBALTCPIPDATA file speciication in the resolver setup file? This allows you to centralize your resolver configuration in a single dataset and it overrides any local TCPIP.DATA file specifications in batch jobs. When using GLOBALTCPIPDATA you can dynamically modify the configuration and have it take effect for all applications running on the system without recycling those applications. Does this feature meet your needs? Here's a pointer to the documentation:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.halz002/resolver_setup_file.htm
GLOBALTCPIPDATA has a limited number of TCPIP.DATA options so ultimately there has to be a second TCPIP.DATA file. Also, as its at the top of the search order, it does the opposite of what I'm trying to achieve - a single, common base level set of parameters which will be used by all those users/tasks who leave TCPIP.DATA to dynamic allocation. By allocating userid.TCPIP.DATA (or defining a RESOLVER_CONFIG environment variable) any user/task can override the DEFAULTTCPIPDATA base parameters, handy when testing things like new DNS Servers.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Enterprise Networking
Product - z/OS Communications Server
Component - TCP/IP
Operating system - IBM z/OS
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - zSeries Software
Product - z/OS
Component - Other
Operating system - IBM z/OS
Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #60784 in product z/OS.