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Core Infrastructure

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zOSMF Properties of Workflow Screen needs to allow others in the group to see all tabs

If a racf group in addition to to a individual are assigned to to a task/step, the members of the team that were not the individual owners of a task/step could not see any of the info in the Dependencies, Perform, Status, Input Variables, and Feed...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

DFSMShsm FRRECOV enhancement to control FC relationship after FC background copy completion

With the current behavior of the FRRECOV CP(nn) processing in DS8K incremental FlashCopy environment, the FC relationship is withdrawn after FC background copy (BGC) completion. Therefore full volume copy is needed on next FRBACKUP CP(nn) incremen...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

SA JES2 SPOOL monitor to detect unusual growth

In normal operation, JES2 spool can fill up and notification is received when we hit the JES2 warning level. The warning level we currently have set is 80% and we have SPOOLSHORT commands in-place to reduce this. However, what we do not have is vi...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF notifications should support the use of HTTP - Proxy

We get the following error, when we try to use the z/OSMF - notifications - service: The connection to the host "https://ibm-zevent.mybluemix.net/messages" failed in push service "IBM Bluemix" . In our production environment it is not possible for...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Allow for no accounting information in z/OSMF

Hello, We are requesting for it to be possible to use z/OSMF functions (e.g. rest api's) without the need to define accounting info.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

RMF details about ECSA consuption by %MVS and VTAM address space

%MVS and VTAM represent one of the biggest consumers of ECSA memory, and as we often have shortage alerts, it would be interesting to know which processes are consuming more ECSA. With more details we could prevent system interruptions and transac...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 4 Not under consideration

Controlling Output Class Usage with SAF Resources

We want to control output class usage by granting access based on submitter or owner profile's through the definition of SAF Facility class profiles. Job submit should end with a SEC error.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Z/OS PARMDD to support started task parameter

Please have PARMDD support started task parameter
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance Report of IFASMFDL

IBM Redbook SG247919 includes three SMF user exits SMFDPUX3, SMFDPUX2 and SMFDPUX1 which show a much more detailled report of the records dumped as the standard record does. The report includes the subtypes and the system ID where the record came ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Enhance the IPSEC command to delete a shadow tunnel

We hit an issue where the main SWSA tunnel came down but one of the shadow tunnels remained active and thus caused our server on that host to become unresponsive. We had no way of removing the shadow tunnel to resume our workload on that LPAR and ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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