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IZUFPROC Abend S222 and S013E Logrec Entries

S222 abends are generally expected when the RESTFiles requests have finished their processing. When a request first arrives, REST Files creates a TSO Address Space to handle the request, which remains available after use so that subsequent request...
4 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

parameter to suppress IXL014I, IXL015I, and IXL016I messages when accessing coupling facility structures.

Having a parameter on the IXL* calls would be nice to be able to suppress the IXL* messages that come out.
2 days ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Submitted

Telum I/II monitoring/reporting/controls

Add mechanisms to control/limit what applications and workloads (NNDA flagged) will have access to Telum I/II accelerators in the machines. Controls could be done via HMC on a hypervisor level similarly to how processors assignments and weight dis...
2 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

LISTCAT CATALOG to produce CSV output

Hi, The output of LISTCAT CATALOG should be very efficient to be produced in csv format as well. Having all the information in one line per entry, a system programmer can extract easier the provided information. Kid regards Konstantinos
3 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Submitted

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...
12 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...
17 days ago in z/OS / General 1 Submitted

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...
10 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Under review

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

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...
19 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...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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