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z/OSMF RESTful APIs for RACF management

Dear, Our customer ICBC is trying to use z/OSMF to implement RACF management such as password reset, user resume and so on. But now z/OSMF didn't provide any API to implement it. We open this RFE in order to request z/OSMF to provide RESTful API t...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Using DSFS to delete PDSE member generation uses wrong STOW

Using DSFS to delete a pdse member with member generations incorrectly uses the STOW type D instead of DG. Thus deleting the base member while leaving all member generations as orphans.
12 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 3 Future consideration

zOSMF - enable JCL edit for software deployment jobs

software management under zOSMF allows for deployment of products to target systems. The tooling builds a set of batch jobs which can then be executed to deploy the software. The tooling builds the batch jobs in a set way and although it may work ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

JES2 Access enhancement for MSGCLASS, SYSOUT as already provided for JOBLCASS

We are using a user written exit to control usage of: SYSOUT JOBCLASS MSGCLASS OUTPUTCLASS Currently supported by RACF out of the Box is 'only' the JOBCLASS using Profiles: JES.JOBCLASS.* in CL(FACILITY)
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Send TCP/IP reply traffic over the same interface

Provide a way to force the TCP/IP Stack to send reply traffic over the same interface that the request came in on.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

multiple "F ANTAS000,..." consol commands have to be executed correctly w/o errors like "IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY"

multiple StateSave via "F ANTAS000,STATESAVE muuuu 0 N" consol commands have to be executed correctly w/o errors like "IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY"
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 3 Future consideration

Support NOTIFY JCL in PROCs and INCLUDEs - (was Add dynamic system symbol for max return code of a job)

MVS already defines a dynamic system symbol for the job name of the current job (&JOBNAME). It would be nice to also have a symbol for the highest return code of the current job
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 6 Future consideration

IEBCOPY Site Default for GENS=ALL

IEBCOPY should have a site wide default (parmlib) for GENS=ALL
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

IFASMFDL DUMP start date time window

While switching from SMF dataset mode to logstream mode, we noticed that IFASMFDP (dataset mode) behaves differently than IFASMFDL (logstream) wrt the date/time windows:- IFASMFDP allows to dump records from start date "-1"/time "xx:xx" up until e...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Display FMID for datasets being deployed in a server pack

When doing installation of a server pack with many hundred of dataset it's not easy to know what product the dataset belongs to. There for it would be very useful to display FMID & a description of the product in a column to make it easier to ...
12 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

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