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DFSMShsm Update delete empty container messages to reflect the function it is for, migration or dump.

TCT cloud users currently see messages regarding the deletion of empty containers for migration and for dump. These messages are issued when the corresponding function is running. It would be helpful if the messages contained the function keyword ...
12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Add sudo to the OEF

sudo is the ideal way to invoke authorized (superuser) tools under OMVS and should be included with OEF since it isn't provided as part of the IBM z/OS USS set of tools.
6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Future consideration

Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

SYSLOGD / syslog() API - Make it possible to configure a custom AF_UNIX socket for syslog() API

We'd like to get an option for the openlog() / syslog() / closelog() API to configure the AF_UNIX socket to direct the logging messages to another SYSLOGD that is running with -p option configured. The reason for this is, that we consider to run a...
2 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Under review

JES2 - More granular Security Controls

According to the most current documentation related to zOS 3.1 to control input to your system, it is only possible to control job class usage. See documentation for reference. However, the job class is not the only attribute that shall be control...
2 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Rust language

“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 4 Future consideration

Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server (NCA) - Add Backup option

NCA should have a option of backing up existing policy dataset/file before appending saving new changes. This allow easy rollback if required.
14 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

SYSLOGD zIIP eligable

Since z/OS V3R1 backported to V2R5 (PH47666), SYSLOGD provides the possibility to send logs to remote systems. This open's a whole new world, like connecting systems to Splunk in a very easy way. In times of every MIPS count, this new possibilitie...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

To have parameter SYSSYM set to ALLOW as default instead of DISALLOW.

Today in zOS2.5 we have parameter SYSSYM set to DISALLOW as default for all jobclass in the system. With all the migration that is happening and will happen from JES3 to JES2 customers will need at some point to change this parameter to allow if t...
7 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Not under consideration

Add Ability to install new products into existing CSI with z/OSMF Software Management

We would need a way to install new products into an existing SMP CSI_ using z/OSMF Software Management.For us, it would be sufficient, if z/OSMF under the covers installs the product into a temporary new CSI and then offers the option to merge tha...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration