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Core Infrastructure

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z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

DFSMSsms ACS provide &OLDNAME variable during ACSENVIR=RENAME in MGMTCLAS

During SMS &ACSENVIR='RENAME' processing there is currently no ability in the MGMTCLAS routine to check what the original dataset name is, you only have the newname in the &DSN variable. This means that inappropriate renames cannot be prev...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Not under consideration

Improve the copy services tasks management of ANTMAIN to avoid some tasks interfere with other tasks

During the implementation of TCT (transparent cloud tiering) with HSM and DS8K my customer caused an incident that stopped all jobs using ADRDSSU to complete and to be cancelled. The current maxtask value (42) of ANTMAIN was reached because the mi...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

ISPF SuperC compare / ISREDIT COMPARE support for modify process options in REXX/TSO.

Customer: Claus Bjoerno, Bankdata under JN Data.---------------------------- We're currently having an issue with the internal ISPF SuperC compare, using this statement in a REXX under TSO: "ISREDIT COMPARE SESSION SAVE SYSIN" It seems that this c...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 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.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Managing multiple CPM instances across multiple CECs & plexes

Allow CPM instances to communicate with each other to ensure only one instance per CEC is in Autonomic mode to remove the possibility of multiple instances from trying to activate capacity on the same CEC. Also, if the LPAR that is running the CPM...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Deployment - Add new datasets to deployments

Unable to add customer specific "datasets" to a deployment
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Check pending structures and perform structures' rebuild more easily when activating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When activating a new CFRM policy, sometimes the change remains pending if CF resources are allocated for the structures being modified. Reallocate or structure rebuild is needed in order for the pending policy change to take effect. However, with...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow 'su' to inherit options from the parent shell

Hello IBM, Without the 2nd 'errexit', the script below continues further execution, despite /var/xxxxxxxxxxx being non-existent ('su' does not inherit the 1st 'errexit'). If the commands following the 'su' are dangerous, system-wide actions (not h...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 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

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