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Add jobname/userid to BPXP005I messages

Currently, when the BPXP005I message is issued, there is no indication of the originating job name or user ID. As a result, system programmers must manually investigate to determine which user or job is generating the message, significantly slowin...
3 months ago in z/OS / USS Submitted

Correct the USS_PARMLIB healthcheck

The USS_PARMLIB healthcheck compares the active runtime config against the contents of BPXPRMxx and flags any differences. The problem is that is flags ANY differences, even if they are functionally/semantically equivalent. For example, if you add...
3 months ago in z/OS / USS Submitted

Have bpxwmigf check desired access to filesystem dataset is permitted before starting

It is possible for bpxwmigf to mirror and swap to use the new filesystem but then fail to perform the rename of the target(or source) if ALTER access was not permitted. While no outage occurs, this does lead to additional work to either repeat the...
5 months ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

Expand options for automount

the -f option on automount should allow wildcarding and also accept a 'blank' to show ALL zfs's automount information.
6 months ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

OGET and OPUT convert to/from EBCDIC

Allow OGET (copy from USS file to MVS dataset) to convert to EBCDIC (code page 1047). Add a new parm "TO1047" to perform this similiar to OCOPY. For OPUT add parm "FROM1047" to convert to ASCII (code page 037)
7 months ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

Change permissions on mount/mkdir

We have /tmp filesystem mounted as TFS filesystem. There are several tasks, that are using /tmp/javasharedresources. The first task using this path will make this directory. In the moment, we have to trust the application or programmer to choose t...
8 months ago in z/OS / USS Future consideration

zOS Health Check - Root and Altroot in synch?

Add a new Health Check or extend an existing one that compares the root and altroot filesystem if they are in synch.
9 months ago in z/OS / USS Functionality already exists

USS Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion support for IBM-1141 and other code pages.

We would appreciate an enhancement in Unix System Services – Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion – so that it also works for code pages other than IBM-1047, such as IBM-1141. Currently, the following restriction exists: Only the EBCDIC IBM-1047 en...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS Functionality already exists

uss share memory needs to have flag to say 31/64 bit

I wanted to connect to the Java Shared memory. When I used shmctl it came back with a length of 0. When I used shmat with address of 0, it came back with invalid parameter. I had to compile my program as 64 bit for it to work. We need a way of tel...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS Functionality already exists

take advantage of SDB when allocating a dataset using BPXBATCH

While allocating a dataset using BPXBATCH Program, FORCE SDB only has an affect if the data set is not opened between the allocation and un allocation. The only program I can think of that does that is IEFBR14. But when we are using BPXBATCH, file...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS Not under consideration

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