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Core Infrastructure

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z/OSMF export/import of configuration definitions

We have more than one z/OSMF running in more then one sysplex. We would like to export and import some of the configured functions from one z/OSMF to the other. For example - z/OS Operator Consoles- Links- FTP Servers- etc Same as for Network Conf...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Workflow Syntax Check for input variables

Currently, z/OSMF seems to not be able to check input fields for the correct syntax. In case of wrong input fields, z/OSMF just accepts the input and continues. This is even worse in case of e.g. provisioning a black box like zCX. For example: zCX...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 3 Future consideration

hbdelete - deleting Unix Directories recursively

We need an option with hbdelete to delete a whole directory with all files and sub-directories. Like option -X for hlist, the same option could be implemented for hbdelete. e.g. hbdelete -aX /u/iz01715/All files and sub-directories will be deleted...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Update LDAP on z/OS to bring it into this century with the TLS levels it supports

The LDAP documentation (and defaults) are woefully behind times. The give instructions on SSL V3, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 despite these versions being deprecated.The doc needs to be updated. The samples and defaults need to be updated, and deprecated ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR should be of type Error

In my opinion the message IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR ... should be of type error. A job should end with RC 8 and not 4, because it is an error and not an information the utility IFASMFDL gives. So please change it to IFA849E and change the behavior...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Provide a DISPLAY PROCLIB command similar to D PARMLIB

Please provide DISPLAY PROCLIB|STCJOBS command similar to the DISPLAY PARMLIB command.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer allow cancellation

When having a big list of datasets being imported, it is not possible to cancel/stop a task. The only way to stop a task is to restart the full zOSMF instance which is very bad as other services rely on zOSMF. A full Server restart just because th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA TCPIP profile - allow unresolved symbols in promoted configuration file

A lot of work has gone into adding the ability to maintain the TCPIP Profile in the Network Configuration Assistant The TCPIP command xportprof makes it easy to import the existing configurations into the NCA . It brings in the values for used sym...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

z/OS 3.1 SDSF and "FS - File systems OMVS" MOUNTPARM Truncated to 57 chars.

The z/OS OMVS MOUNTPARM: parameter can be up to 1024 characters long. Suggestion: 1. If not possible for SDSF to return the complete MOUNTPARM value up to 1024 then please tell this in the: SDSF Help Text panel ( F1 Help Key) Help-Text MOUNTPARM !...
8 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

ADRDSSU RESTORE to allow target system SMS attributes

While running z/OSMF PSI to install z/OSv2r5, Job IZUD05UZ invokes GIMUNZIP which calls ADRDSSU to RESTORE the zFS data set. Unfortunately the target data set always get the DATACLAS value from the source data set. Thus the target zFS gets the DAT...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

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