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Core Infrastructure

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zOSMF - Full High Availability (not only for REST)

Current implementation of zOSMF does not allow for a full High-Availability setup, which contradicts the platforms design with highest availability, redundancy and data sharing.We suffer from zOSMF downtime required for maintenance of the hosting ...
1 day ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Media manager interfaces should provide feedback as to whether writes are actually using zHyperWrite or not

The media manager interfaces don't give enough feedback about whether zHyperWrite is working or not. They only tell a caller that a data-set is zHyperWrite enabled, or not, during initial connect to that data-set. zHyperWrite state can easily chan...
24 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Media Manager 1 Submitted

Provide consistent easy RCF link from all formats

Provide an easy way to submit reader comments, consistent between the HTML and PDF versions, with adequate instructions. Currently the PDF versions link to a documentation page that does not have an obvious link for reader comments.
23 days ago in z/OS / Documentation 1 Submitted

Enhance SuperC (ISRSUPC) to Add Option to Suppress Report Headers

Using SuperC in Batch (ISRSUPC) the ability to suppress the report headers would be helpful for applications that only need the report data.
9 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

Extend support for TR31 key blocks with key usage P0 and mode of use B to AES PINPROT keys

About 5 years ago, I requested that you add support for mode of use B on key usage P0 key blocks, for IPINENC and OPINENC DES keys. That request was implemented, controlled by ACPs, and we have been making use of it. But that support was not exten...
7 days ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Submitted

zSORT Batch Pipes support

Bradesco uses DFSORT in many of its jobs that run on production LPARs. We recently have put on a project to test and certify the use of zSORT as a way of lowering the elapsed time of our critical jobs in the batch window. We also make use of Batch...
19 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Submitted

Drop the requirements for VSAM RLS/Sysplex Structure

To make possible to use the new EzNoSQL database without a sysplex.
5 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Submitted

Provide support for Folders or Filtering for Protected Datasets in zOS Change Tracker

If there is a large number of Protected Datasets and a user is only interested in being able to see a selection of them, there is currently no way to create a customised selection (via a Folder or Filtering) of the datasets the user is only intere...
16 days ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Submitted

Externalising the ZFS ucat Automount allocation error’s in SYSLOG.

A change is needed for the 'UCAT' option of the 'ALLOCUSER' parm in automount. A error message should be externalized to SYSLOG when the creation of the end users zfs fails because there is no ALIAS in the master catalog. Currently the only way to...
7 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

Add interface to JES2/3 to be able to submit jobs via SFTP script similarly as FTP

First, the facility is on the regular FTP to JES2 job submission. This is not available on an SFTP process, this interface should be similar to the FTP. How it should work: When a client sends data in this case to the zOS mainframe, after the file...
15 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

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