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Support logical PARMLIB concatenation for ANTMIN00

Currently, ANTMIN00 PARMLIB member has to reside in SYS1.PARMLIB or a member with sysname in SYS1.ANTMAIN.PARMLIB. The better solution would be that ANTMIN00 can be located in the logical PARMLIB concatenation. So, please make it possible to locat...
1 day ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Under review

Add a command to know who is using resource for a scheduling environment

We use scheduling environment to schedule execution of job on LPAR who have resources available for the job. The job start on the good LPAR but have several steps. It happens sometimes that after the job start, one resource become unavailable so w...
3 days ago in z/OS / General 0 Submitted

Automatic Binary Optimizer for the Operating System

Since years, there is the ABO available for COBOL. The latest z/OS always supports up to minus two generations of hardware. So after you update a z/OS and a machine, you still can't benefit at all from the latest hardware. The idea is to add a sim...
9 days ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Submitted

RACF Extract API for JWTs (enhancement for ZOS-I-4417)

This is an additon for ZOS-I-4417, but it would also be usefull if it could be provided for the existing JWT validation... With RACF be able to validate JWTs, there should be a service avalable to extract the information out of the JWT after it go...
10 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Support Compression for zCX-VSAM Files

We want to compress the data from zCX at runtime to minimize the I/Os and the used space on DASD. For Pervasive Encryption it is recommended to compress data before encryption. For zFS VSAM-LDS Files it is possible to compress by using zfsadm comm...
26 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Multiple Image Registry for zCX

This is a request for Enhancement in z/OS Container Extensions (zcx or classic zCX). zCX currently allows only one secure image registry & its certificate to be specified in its configuration. If we want to change the image registry, we need t...
5 days ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Submitted

Add sudo command into the base install USS security

Integrating sudo like Linux has would improve security by being able to use superuser privileges on a case-by-case basis rather than having all of your commands be superuser authorized. We'd also be able to set restrictions and timeouts in the sud...
3 months ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 8 Planned for future release

An export&import functionality for HMC Information inside Activaiton Profiles

I would like to suggest creating a functionality to transfer all the HMC LPAR and CEC information inside the "Customize/Delete activate profile" to an XML, zOS datasets or any other kind of format, making it easier to see the history of changes on...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Functionality already exists

64-bit latch services support AMODE(64) but not RMODE(64). The irony of this is obvious.

This support, which is trivial, should have been done as soon as RMODE(64) was supported.
3 days ago in z/OS / BCP_GRS 0 Submitted

Stacking PCs only support 31-bit via the ETDEF service PROGRAM or ROUTINE. The hardware has supported 64-bit PCs for over twenty years. This support needs to be added.

Allows PC routines to be located above the bar.
3 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review