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Please allow use of ISO format date stamps in the z/OS System Log

This allows normal humans, to at a glance , read the dates in the log without needing to refer to google. A parmlib option could be used to enable the new format if desired.
about 21 hours ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Submitted

Add a command to know who is using resource for a scheduling environment

We use scheduling environment to schedule execution of job on LPAR who have resources available for the job. The job start on the good LPAR but have several steps. It happens sometimes that after the job start, one resource become unavailable so w...
14 days ago in z/OS / General 0 Submitted

Automatic Binary Optimizer for the Operating System

Since years, there is the ABO available for COBOL. The latest z/OS always supports up to minus two generations of hardware. So after you update a z/OS and a machine, you still can't benefit at all from the latest hardware. The idea is to add a sim...
19 days ago in z/OS / General 1 Submitted

RACF Extract API for JWTs (enhancement for ZOS-I-4417)

This is an additon for ZOS-I-4417, but it would also be usefull if it could be provided for the existing JWT validation... With RACF be able to validate JWTs, there should be a service avalable to extract the information out of the JWT after it go...
21 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Automate "AI Powered Workload Management" Training

From time to time, new training must be initiated for “AI Powered Workload Management”. At present, this training must be initiated manually. We would like to have a way to trigger this training automatically using an automation tool. The result o...
6 days ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Submitted

Use EMCS console which are not Userid dependent in workflows

The workflow "Configure AI Framework for IBM zOS" step 4 uses a EMCS console which name contains the userid ending with "CN". This means that one have to create a special user which is ending with "CN". Creating a new userid is not a as simple as ...
6 days ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Submitted

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...
29 days ago in z/VM 2 Submitted

parameter to suppress IXL014I, IXL015I, and IXL016I messages when accessing coupling facility structures.

Having a parameter on the IXL* calls would be nice to be able to suppress the IXL* messages that come out.
5 days ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Submitted

Telum I/II monitoring/reporting/controls

Add mechanisms to control/limit what applications and workloads (NNDA flagged) will have access to Telum I/II accelerators in the machines. Controls could be done via HMC on a hypervisor level similarly to how processors assignments and weight dis...
5 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

Prevent User to be revoked from a RRSF side because of inactivity on this side

We have a RACF RRSF network via our sysplexs. We have users who usually only logon in one sysplex. However, in rare situations it can happen that the same user has to logon in another sysplex. RRSF synchronizes the password for this user, but the ...
6 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

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