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Script execution entries.

It would be helpful to identify what scripts have executed in OMVS. Helps to resolve issue wrt to sript execution or failures chekcing.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Recalls of NON-EXTENDED datasets fail on EAV volumes if TMS (Track Managed Space) is full

Getting message IGD17272I VOLUME SELECTION HAS FAILED FOR INSUFFICIENT SPACE.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

New Column in SDSF to display Max Number of Jobs in a Job Class per MAS member

On a JES2 system, the job class panel (JC) has a ‘JCLim' column. This is the value for XEQC=MAX – maximum number of jobs in this class for the entire MAS. What's missing is a column to represent the XEQMEM=MAX value – maximum number of jobs in thi...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Enhance logical dump of PSE data set to effectively use the larger blksizes provides by z/OS 1.12 BSAM support

In fact, searching further from our database I found following interesting info around how DSS proceeds the sequencial data set in extended format --- Because of the interface DSS uses to DUMP PSE data sets, we have never "chained" the tracks of a...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Collect Client Signature Algorithms with z/ERT

At the moment there is no way - besides collecting traces (AT-TLS, SystemSSL, Packettrace) to gather information about signature (hash) algorithms on TLS connections. We would like to use z/ERT to collect data from the client hello signature algor...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Devsup Report of all parameters including defaults

Have one report to display all the fields and value for all parameters that are in DEVSUP member. Today, we have to doc the multiple places to validate fields. See use case.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 2 Planned for future release

Upgrade TSO STATUS command to support JES JOBGROUP

The TSO STATUS command is used to find the status of jobs previously submitted to JES. With z/OS 2.2, JES was enhanced with a new feature call JOBGROUPs. This feature allows jobs to be grouped together. Currently the STATUS command has very rudime...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF REST Services - Add ability to send the client certificate via a HTTP header to z/OSMF

The z/OSMF API functionality is for applications to work with system resources and to extract system data. The authentication can only be checked through a certificate (send with the usual http header) or username + password. The authentication po...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Serialization at dataset instead of VTOC for DSS DEFRAG

We use an alternative defrag solution today and are interested in vendor consolidation - using IBM's built in DSS tool would allow us to simplify our Mainframe environment.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Validate z/OSMF workflow File template contents only at runtime and not definition time

The "File template" in a z/OSMF workflow does check for existence of the respective file or Dataset and fails to save / open the workflow if, for example, the dataset is not available. This works as designed and is documented as such.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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