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Support cross-variable conditional validation in z/OSMF Workflow Editor

Why is it useful? z/OSMF Workflow Editor currently supports validation rules for individual variables, but sometimes the valid value of one variable can depend on another variable. Native conditional validation would simplify workflows, reduce err...
4 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

PROCLIB protection in JES2

Hello, Is it possible to enforce the PROCLIB protection witin JES2 ? Today if we would like to force it, we must update the PPT to override DSI for HASPJES20 program. An option in JES2PARM will be appreciated for this functionnality. As we see a l...
9 days ago in z/OS / JES2 Future consideration

OAM resiliency enhancement

We're using OAM object support out of CICS and by using the new OAM REST API. We would love to see some resiliency enhancements regarding OAM that would solve some possible "outages" of applications calling OAM in situations when we may face issue...
11 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Future consideration

ZOSMF - Add a DEFAULT KEYRING as a Selectable/Default Option in z/OSMF Signature Verification Keyring

Currently, the Signature verification keyring field in z/OSMF requires users to manually enter the keyring name when accessing z/OSMF for the first time on a new system. For example, in our environment, we use a standard keyring such as STCUSER/CV...
20 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Error message CYG843E corrupting of data would be great to have the message shown in our syslog so we could trap and take action immediately rather than taking the abend at recycle.

We have had two type of corruption of change tracker data. First time was the repo index, easy to recover from. The second time was corruption to the repo data file. The error message posted in the output of Change Tracker a snap dump was taken bu...
25 days ago in z/OS / Change Tracker Future consideration

Switch the deploy checklist to move the perform workflows to be after the create of the Software Instance

We have some use cases where individuals have performed the "perform workflows" via the deployment checklist and thought they were done and did not come back and complete the deployment final step that creates the software instance.  There is...
25 days ago in z/OS / SMP/E Future consideration

Routing messages to extended console on the host that submitted the QUERY USER also from other involved HSMs.

Details available in TS022568398 HSM Incomplete Console response using QUERYSET - SYS1.SAMPLIB(ARCTOOLS)
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM Future consideration

Remove usage restrictions for Dynamic System Variable &SEQ

We have a situation where we need to use &SEQ to provide uniqueness in dataset name used in the SYSMDUMP DD. To collect dumps, we have coded the SYSMDUMP in our Application WLM Procs. When we do a WLM refresh, if multiple WLM Application envir...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor Future consideration

DTC option on SETSYS to fix the container name you are granted to access

To use DTC we need to create a bucket according the rules gived by team who managed the S3. For example my bucket is named "/app-stor-l-cda4mainframe" and i have only permission on this bucket. When i issue the command : F HSM,SETSYS CLOUD(NAME(S3...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM Future consideration

ICSF: Emit dedicated SMF records for NEW master key register state changes

Business Justification Security monitoring solutions such as zSecure Alert depend on SMF data to detect important cryptographic administration activities. Although ICSF provides auditing for numerous cryptographic events, installations would benef...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / ICSF Future consideration

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