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    Enable Ansible integration with z/VM

    Ansible Automation is an extremely popular tool that is available on many platforms (including zOS) except for zVM. While providing native SSH access to zVM may be unrealistic I believe that leveraging a Linux VM with SMCLI to communicate to SMAPI...
    10 months ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

    JCL Maximum 255 steps

    Good afternoon, Due to an incident that occurred on 12/19/2025, we have noticed that some of the processes in our installation have failed because they reached the maximum of 255 steps. We know this goes back to the beginning of JCL. However, we w...
    8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

    DFSMS/VM interaction with DRFAMILY on TS7700

    Please consider adding the ability to interact with DRFAMILY on TS7700 from a zVM LPAR (DFSMS/VM).
    10 months ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    JCL IF statement support for system symbols

    If the JCL IF statement supports system symbols, the same JCL could be submitted on multiple systems/LPARs without modification, resulting in a different set of steps being executed based on the value of a system symbol. e.g. The following step wo...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

    Support multiple PDR volumes for redundancy

    Currently there can only be one PDR volume for an SSI cluster. If the storage host where the PDR volume resides goes down or something happens to that volume, all the systems in the cluster go down. Even if there are other storage host and a z/VM ...
    over 3 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    JCL DD statement, new DISP parameter status options or modifiers

    There should be a way to specify in a DD statement the three following uses cases. Note that the "name" of each use case is simply to allow easy reference to that use case. Whether or not its actually implemented with that name is up to the implem...
    over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 3 Not under consideration

    DIRMAINT EXTENT CONTROL statements need to check with RACFVM for authorization with SECLABEL Mandatory Access Control

    We require DIRMAINT to respect RACF SECLABELS for DASD devices when working with MDISKs. Our directory and storage management is provided through DIRMAINT. DIRMAINT's EXTENT CONTROL is the single source of storage definitions. We need to have DIRM...
    over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    DIRMAINT needs to do additional RACF commands when creating a new virtual machine

    DIRMAINT needs to do additional RACF commands when creating a new virtual machine. This is useful in a RACF environment using sitewide SECLABELs for mandatory access control. The commands affected would be DIRM ADD. An additional operand of SECLAB...
    over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

    Evicting a job and restarting should work as expected even when return codes of steps executed before eviction are tested.

    When a batch job is evict and restarted, it no longer has access to the return codes of steps executed prior to the eviction. The requested enhancement is make this process work as expected, which is for the job to be able to continue correctly af...
    almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

    Support VS-CODE for editing native (Rexx, HLASM, etc.) CMS files

    Currently VS CODE supports editing z/OS datasets on a workstation via the z/OSMF facility. CMS developers would benefit from having the same capabilities for editing CMS files using VS-CODE and its toolsets.
    over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

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