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Job Holded/Released statuses in z/OSMF REST services

Job response document contains only 3 statuses "INPUT", "ACTIVE", "OUTPUT" now. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=zjri-json-document-specifications-zos-jobs-rest-interface-requests But we can also hold a job and job will be waiting for r...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Update tasks needs to wait for migrated datasets to be recalled instead of abend

z/OSMF Software Update tasks needs to wait for migrated datasets to be recalled instead of abend right away when it finds a dataset it needs, to be migrated.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 6 Future consideration

ISPF 3.17 Browse - fix codepage detection

When using ISPF 3.17 and selecting a file to Edit/View the codepage is correctly detected and the data is usable. When selecting the same file using Browse the codepage is not correctly detected and the data if unintelligible. This should be fixed.
9 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

z/OS - Expand DISPLAY IOS to display all possible settings from IECIOSxx

Currently, not all values can be checked/display once updated. In 2010 I opened PMR 32372,070,724 and on conclusion it was stated, "I created MR051110250 for the missing DISPLAY of MSGONLY setting.", but it's not yet implemented. Case TS013583156 ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Spot compatibility issue before run-time

Link-edit message IEW2576I is issued by z/OS BINDER and program run-time failed with S0C1. IEW2576I 5034 RESULTANT AMODE( 24 ) OF ENTRY POINT AND RMODE( ANY ) OF SEGMENT 2 MAY BE INCOMPATIBLE. Since module should have RMODE(24) if it is call...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 1 Planned for future release

Provide multi-step indications in zOSMF Workflows regarding which system a workflow will actually be executed on

In order to prevent errors and provide better indication to users about the actual system on which a workflow will execute (as it may be different from source system), please consider the following: - Display the SYSAFF value already in the JOBCAR...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Files API - Fully Support Migrated / Archived z/OS Data Sets

z/OSMF appears to detect migrated / archived z/OS data sets by the pseudo VOLSER name of `MIGRAT`. However, ISV products, like CADISK, may be configured to archive data sets on a VOLSER of 'ARCIVE`. z/OSMF should detect ARCIVE data sets as being m...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 4 Future consideration

Graphic interface for backup/restore USS files with DFSMShsm or "-pick" option similar to TSM-client

Additionally to the commando interface for backup/restore of USS-files with DFSMShsm it would be very useful for endusers, who use only ssh-connect to USS on z/OS, to have any kind of graphish interface to backup/restore of USS-files similar to TS...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Use SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK on libraries other than the current PARMLIB

We can use the SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK command to check our BPXPRMxx member in the current PARMLIB concatenation. However, most errors occur during IPL time with an updated version of these members, which might be on a different data set or even a dif...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Allow a custom threshold to start additional servants

Customer has an Application Server configured with a mininum of 10 and maximum of 20 servants. Each servant is configured with the workload profile as "CUSTOM" and the variable server_region_custom_thread_count=200, witch give us a minimum total o...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

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