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Evicting a job and restarting should work as expected even when return codes of steps executed before eviction are tested.

When a batch job is evict and restarted, it no longer has access to the return codes of steps executed prior to the eviction. The requested enhancement is make this process work as expected, which is for the job to be able to continue correctly af...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Implement an autostart feature for workflows so that instantiating a workflow with an auto-enabled step automatically starts the workflow too

Currently, The POST /zosmf/workflow/rest/{version}/workflows endpoint will only create a workflow instance. A separate call to the PUT /zosmf/workflow/rest/{version}/workflows/{workflowKey}/operations/start endpoint needs to be made in order to st...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

DFRMM : TSO CMD for large number of tapes

Last year I had update more then 150.000 volumes to set HOLD=YES.I could do this only with the TSO RMM Command CV [volid] HOLD.It was very slowly (50.000. volumes in 1h40min :-( ) I think it will be nice if we have a TSO RMM Command with the optio...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

Enhance "Coordinated Graphical Views for Systems Panel" in z/OSMF V2R1 SPE3+

In the August 29 "System z Mainframe Simplification" workgroup call the "Coordinated Graphical Views for Systems Panel" was presented. By now the view is only a collection of CECs and LPARs including their detail information. There are many more a...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 44 Future consideration

Write IEFC001I and IEFC002I information to SMF

Description: At the point where IEFC001I and IEFC002I messages are produced, also write this information to SMF. The record should indicate if it was a cataloged procedure (the IEFC001I infomation) or an INCLUDE group, the member used, whether i...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Resiliency in a z/OS UNIX shared file system sysplex enivronment

Resiliency in a z/OS UNIX shared file system sysplex enivronment needs to be improved related to the critical mutually exclusive serialized functions (e.g. UNMOUNT, MOVE, MOUNT RESYNC, FILE SYSTEM INITIALIZATION, FILE SYSTEM TAKEOVER, etc.). If on...
5 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Add Client/Server role indicator into ZERT SMF 119 Subtype 11 Records

The SMF 119 Subtype 11 record (ZERT Detail) does not have any indcation of whether z/OS is the client or server for the connection. This indicator DOES exits in the SMF 119 Subtype 12 (ZERT Summary) records, fields SMF119SS_SAServer , SMF119SS_SAC...
10 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA: provide new options in older releases

Today, new network security parameters are made available in the Network Configuration Agent along with the new z/OS release. If the NCA is running in a production environment, these new network security parameters for the Policy Agent can only be...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Request to add more flexibility to PDSE Member Generations

This is an enhancement suggestion for the next version of PDSE libraries. With PDSE V2, you can retain multiple generations of members. This feature may have been added to close one of the remaining PDSE functionality gaps compared to regular PDS ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 3 Future consideration

Debug EZZ8309I. Command to display DVIPA counters ---> List address spaces and their current allocation of DVIPA resources.

To support the "EZZ8309I Too many VIPAS" message a command is required to display the DVIPA statistical counters as well as to list address spaces and their current consumption of DVIPA resources. This would be a useful problem determination aid a...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration