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Concatenating AUTOIPL members

We would like to be able to have DIAGnn members, that only contain MVS (in the AutoIPL policy). We'd like to have the ability to change the MVS address, but leave the existing SADMP information intact. For example DIAGAA contains: AUTOIPL SADMP(7D...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Automattic inclusion of all CA certs to a keyring

In the case where you do not need a personal certificate on your keyring a Virtual keyrings works well. However if you have two way authentication the Virtual keyring is not useful in this case since it requires a personal certificate attached to ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Not under consideration

Add a 'syntax check' function to POLICY AGENT to check syntax of policy files.

We like to have command to enable Policy Agent to do a syntax check that simulates loading a new config and syntax checking it, without impacting the current running config. Much like the TCPIP syntax check for profiles. We have a process currentl...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

include CopyPool Records in DCOLLECT Output

The DCOLLECT function should include informations about copypools.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Planned for future release

Allocation should not retry allocating devices that still have tapes mounted on them

We experienced a large number of microcode issues during the unloads of our VTS drives. The result was a tape drive that z/OS thought was unloaded but actually had a tape mounted from the VTS's perspective. Because z/OS and the VTS are 'out of syn...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 2 Not under consideration

z/OS console services - solKeyReg -> sol-key-detected:false -> fail the workflow step

In z/OSMF workflow REST API step, it's very inconvenient to check the response to API request and possibly fail the workflow step. Eg.: <requestBody substitution="true">{"cmd":"S BLABLA","system":"${_workflow-systemName}","sol-key": "^(?![\\...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Ability to set the max LRECL for our site of have it contingent on the type of step

We've been tripped up by this setting quite a bit when creating our own workflows. Usually (almost always) when we perform a step that is JCL, we need the max LRECL to be 80 (the default is 1024). Unless you know that will be a problem when run yo...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Ability to disable the default jobcard in z/OSMF or have it as conditionally added if one isn't found in the JCL.

When using z/OSMF workflows, we seem to be forced to use the default jobcard regardless of whether or not the JCL we are using has one already. It's not a huge deal but it gives people the impression that they are getting a JCL error if they aren'...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Update ISPCMDS table entries for Minimum TRUNC values (e.g. UDLIST should be 3)

The default ISPCMDS table has many commands that have a truncation value of 0 when there is no reason to force the user to type in the entire command name. Reasonable truncation values should be considered and implemented. UDLIST is an example of ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Planned for future release

ZEXPAND changes

The ZEXPAND command is helpful for entering long edit commands but the current implementation is somewhat awkward.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

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