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For virtual concurrent copy try another WSDS in case of a conflict instead of fallback to concurrent copy

After virtual concurrent copy a withdraw is not instantly performed. In case of a lot of virtual concurrent activity, there's a change that the same target storage gets selected as that used for a previous virtual concurrent copy, but for which wi...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM Future consideration

zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - History of commands

zOSMF SDSF Plugin does not keep a history of the commands like the '/' offers in the ISPF interface or the direct console usage via 'zOS Operator Consoles' plugin, which does support history as well.
8 months ago in z/OS / SDSF Future consideration

zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - Must support SYSLOG and OPERLOG

zOSMF SDSF Plugin 'LOGS' panel only offers the 'Event Log' but neither SYSLOG nor OPERLOG is supported which is a requirement to have the same functionality in the SDSF plugin.
8 months ago in z/OS / SDSF Future consideration

zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - Userlog (ULOG) must support 'ULOG CLOSE'

zOSMF SDSF Plugin Userlog (ULOG) must support 'ULOG CLOSE' to have the same functionality as the ISPF interface.
8 months ago in z/OS / SDSF Future consideration

zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - Userlog (ULOG) must adjust to max screen size

zOSMF SDSF Plugin Userlog (ULOG) must adjust to the max screen size of the browser. See attached screen print the waste of space when not scaling to the max.
8 months ago in z/OS / SDSF Future consideration

Automate "AI Powered Workload Management" Training

From time to time, new training must be initiated for “AI Powered Workload Management”. At present, this training must be initiated manually. We would like to have a way to trigger this training automatically using an automation tool. The result o...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / AI Framework Future consideration

z/OSMF - Get dynamic window sizes in Sysplex Management Plugin

When working on a big screen and running zOSMF "Sysplex Management" plugin in full screen mode to work on CFRM policy structure or others, the window does not scale to the real size of the window of the browser. The zOSMF plugin itself is limited ...
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Built-in z/OS Unix package manager

z/OS Unix is slowly becoming more widely used and relevant with technologies like Python, GO, Zowe Explorer, Zowe Desktop and so on. Installs via pax are becoming more common and a new generation of systems programmers are coming in that need to i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / General Future consideration

COBOL 6.4 and equivalent LE: Provide LE functions to convert BASE64 to binary and vice versa

BASE64 is widely used in web applications, email attachments, embedding binary data in a text file, imbedding a PDF in an HTML page, etc. Providing LE functions so that COBOL 6.4 (and future compilers) can translate binary strings to BASE64 and vi...
3 months ago in z/OS / LE 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 2 years ago in z/OS / General Future consideration

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