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Core Infrastructure

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IEBUPDTE Support for VB and LRECL > 80

This utility is limited to 80 bytes, but PDS/PDSE are not limited to 80 bytes, so we can not use it to add members to a PDS/PDSE that exceed the 80 byte limit. IEBUPDTE should support the limit of PDS/PDSE LRECL.IEBUPDTE should support RECFM=VB/VB...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Intelligent tape devices should provide better mount information

In our modern times, most if not all tape mounts are now managed by intelligent devices, whether virtual tape systems or robotic systems. These external hardware devices are actually computer systems with hardware attached, and as such should be a...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Introduce type=file as variable type for workflows

Workflow variables can currently be assigned a type like "string", "time", "date" in order to correctly pass a certain value to the workflow. We would like to see type "file" added to the collection in order to upload files which then can be used ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Restore Docker Daemon logging levels by suppressing confidential user config.json information

Currently the Docker Daemon dumps the contents of a user's config.json file into the zCX joblog (SYSPRINT) if there is a syntax error in the Dockerfile (e.g. missing "\" continuation on RUN command or perhaps other situations). The user's config.j...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

The background color can't be changed on z/OSMF WebISPF.

The background color can't be changed on z/OSMF WebISPF, it should be useful it's color can be changed to black so one can work efficiently as traditional ISPF
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

RMF API JSON Support.

It would be nice to get JSON support for RMF APIs. Rightnow it only support XML.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

Take advantage of DAE to suppress dumps

We encountered a situation where the zFS address space was taking 2C3 abends. The abend would sometimes occur more than once a day. DAE was not suppressing the dumps. Coding of the SDUMPX macro should be changed to take advantage of letting DAE su...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Workflow Editor Should Support Longer Step Description

We create rich-text descriptions for our workflow steps. They look great when displayed by the z/OSMF Workflow task. Unfortunately, it is currently impossible to make minor text corrections using the workflow editor as it supports only very short ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Increase timeout value when starting a CEA address space

When the following error is received it means that z/OSMF has timed out when it is waiting for a CEA address space to start SEVERE:Failed to create TSO AS with TsoController.startTsoWithCmd(). retryCount=5, isReady=false isPrompt=false, TSO data: ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Workload Management - limited interaction within sysplex boundaries

Workload Management task interactions with sysplex are limited to the sysplex in which the z/OSMF host system is a member. It would be helpful if the Workload Management info could be updated, installed and activated across all sysplex's from a ce...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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