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Enable FEATURE SHARED=YES in the HCD PROFILE

Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
28 days ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

Use NEWNAMEunconditional on zOSMF backup of source datasets

On systems where the HLQ of source datasets only exist on the source system, a catalog error on the target system is encountered when the restore job runs even though RENAMEunconditional is used to rename to a HLQ that exists on the target system....
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Move settings of password phrase rules from ICHPWX11-exit to RACF SETROPTS

Today we use the Exit ICHPWX11 to manage our rules for RACF Password Phrases (e.g. length of Password Phrase, valid Characters). Unfortunately the exit is not supported by IBM. A sample is delivered with SYS1.SAMPLIB, but the most current version ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Future consideration

zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - History of commands

zOSMF SDSF Plugin does not keep a history of the commands like the '/' offers in the ISPF interface or the direct console usage via 'zOS Operator Consoles' plugin, which does support history as well.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - Must support SYSLOG and OPERLOG

zOSMF SDSF Plugin 'LOGS' panel only offers the 'Event Log' but neither SYSLOG nor OPERLOG is supported which is a requirement to have the same functionality in the SDSF plugin.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - Userlog (ULOG) must support 'ULOG CLOSE'

zOSMF SDSF Plugin Userlog (ULOG) must support 'ULOG CLOSE' to have the same functionality as the ISPF interface.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - Userlog (ULOG) must adjust to max screen size

zOSMF SDSF Plugin Userlog (ULOG) must adjust to the max screen size of the browser. See attached screen print the waste of space when not scaling to the max.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

SDSF - Add SMF Logstream information - Show if Signed

Add to the new SDSF panel 'SMFL' two new columns RECSIGN and ARECSIGN reporting if the logstream is signed (like for compressed) and which token is used.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

[Sysplex Management] Allow to edit preflist of multiple structures at once in the CFRM Policy editor

Currently, if you want to modify the preflist of multiple structures, you must select each structure individually, click "Edit", adjust the preflist order using the "Sort" buttons in the preflist section, and then save the changes. When dealing wi...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add variable for Comments to the email template.

Our management and auditors are going to require a change ticket number and description in the emails when a dataset is changed. The current email template does not include a way to incorporate the comments from CSAVE.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration