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Core Infrastructure

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Enable access to input datasets for DSFS

Currently DSFS only supports output spool datasets. The addition of input spool datasets would be very helpful in providing a full user experience via the /dsfs/ sysout interface.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Integrate zowe into the base z/OS product and maintenance stream

zowe is becoming a key part of many installations devops environment and needs to be installed and supported as part of the z/OS service stream. By doing this it will save each site the added steps involved on the installation and maintenance and ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / General 2 Under review

zOSMF - NCA Allow comparision of policies between stacks

It shall be possible to compare an AT-TLS policy (and as well all other technologies available in NCA) between two defined TCPIP Stacks. As I can have a staggered approach to deploy new rules or other attributes of a policy for stack A, I want to ...
16 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

Add job classes REST call to z/OSMF API

It would be useful if the z/OSMF REST API allowed you to get a list of all job classes on a system, this could be used in IDE extensions, external management tools or automating documentation.
23 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Bundle python with the z/OS base system

Including Python as a part of z/OS will offer several advantages, similar to REXX being bundled with z/OS. Python is an extremely versatile programming language with a wide range of applications, from web development to data analysis, artificial i...
2 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Under review

Health Checker - VSAMRLS_QUIESCE_STATUS check

Whenever there is a situation that causes VSAMRLS_QUIESCE_STATUS to alert ( by reaching the predefined threshold for the quiesce status ) this check generates a list of the CICS regions accessible only if you go inside the check - that means you h...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 0 Under review

Suppress SDSF ULOG panel after z/OS V2.5

SDSF ULOG display was changed by z/OS V2.5 following. <V2.4>The users who do not authorized READ access to resource ISFCMD.ODSP.ULOG.jesx could not display ULOG panel. <V2.5> The users became to display ULOG panel whether authorized or...
10 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

DFSMStvs have a hard upper limit set in PARMLIB that cannot be overridden by JCL

Currently the TVSAMCOM in PARMLIB can be overridden by including TVSAMCOM=(n,n) on the JCL EXEC statement. in our case, we've had a couple of instances where an application did not take the default set in PARMLIB and flooded the CF and SMSVSAM wit...
4 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 0 Submitted

Support extended highlighting in custom health checks

SDSF 3.1 adds a feature for extended highlighting in health check reports. These drastically improve readability of extensive check outputs. Right now, custom health checks are not supported and therefore can't make use of the new feature. SDSF an...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

Currently there's no check in the COPY command for ADRDSSU to see if the data sets are the RACF databases or not

Hi - Sometime ago, there was a problem when the data sets which contains the RACF primary and backup databases were moved using ADRDSSU. The data sets were protected as recommended by the books as well as they were assigned the PSU attribute. Howe...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Under review