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Reinstate Import Policy feature in Network Configuration Assistant

When onboarding clients this feature provides the ability to convert them flat files to NCA in a timely and efficient manner with minimum error opportunities. In the past I have used it to import the running configurations from the Stack, so I hav...
about 5 hours ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

LE library routines stack storage should not be initializzed

We are using LE runtime option: STORAGE(00,NONE,00,0) We are not able to change this. This imposes a huge overhead in the LE library routines like the jsonGetValue(). As these routines do not rely on LE initialization of stack storage option, we w...
about 15 hours ago in z/OS / LE 0 Submitted

Allow VSAM Data Sets To Consider Previously Used Volumes Prior To Extend Failures

Allow new extents for VSAM data sets to consider previously used volumes before failing the extend with out of volume error.The feature will be very useful to Db2 tablespace and index extend processing which will provide additional Db2 object avai...
21 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Submitted

New IBM Health Checker for z/OS PARMLIB Inconsistencies and Errors

z/OSMF Parmlib Management provides syntax validation for individual members (e.g., BPXPRM, IEASYS) via REST API, checking keywords and structure but not field values, correlations, or cross-member inconsistencies. IBM Health Checker for z/OS runs ...
6 days ago in z/OS / General 0 Submitted

Allow multiple z/OSMF server tasks to share a common data repository within a SYSPLEX

We would like to be able to run multiple z/OSMF servers tasks in a SYSPLEX that can be used to manage Software install, Zert, PAGENT policies (or anything else that has persistent data) in addition to REST APIs. Currently the persistent data canno...
27 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

List keyrings associated with all users

Currently, RACF has limitation to only be able to list keyrings or certificates based on single user ID or Certauth or SITE. Why its useful? Listing all keyrings or certificates will provide at glance if any keyrings are empty or have keyrings wit...
3 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

RACF - Support of RSA keysize of 8192bit for RACDCERT with zOS 3.2

With zOS 3.2 ICSF does support the key generation of 8192 bit: ICSF Panel 5.6.6 (CSFPKY22) [.....] Generate a new asymmetric key pair record. Select one key type/size: RSA key bit length: ____ (512 - 8192) [.....] But when using RACF RACDCERT comm...
5 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Flexibility to allow different actions by CPM in response to the sharpness of the spike in capacity demand

The current CPM policy only allow a single action when the CPC CPU utilization has gone above the monitoring threshold. There is no ability to allow CPM to add different amount of capacity in response to the sharpness of the spike in the capacity ...
5 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

Validate result for the BPX.CF service in the zOSMF Security Configuration Assistant

Customers will get a notification "No CF levels are available for sizing calculation" if the BPX.CF service under Security configuration assistant is not defined. If there is a generic FACILITY class profile *.* defined, the validation result for ...
7 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Controlling who can submit jobs with specific SCHENV

We want to control which users can submit jobs with a specific SCHENV. Currently, we control submissions using a JES2 JclEvaluation policy. However, the restriction should be much more granular and user-based.
7 days ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted