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Improve error reporting/LOGREC records associated with OBTAIN failure

We recently experienced an issue that involved VTOC corruption which required a ZAP to fix the VTOC. When the error occurred and was reported, there were messages and a LOGREC record that identified the volume involved, but there was no way to kno...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 0 Future consideration

CDA plugin on Zosmf

We're using CDA (DHSMS) more and more to feed S3 Buckets that are managed by colleagues on OPEN teams who are less at ease with the z/OS world.They'd like to be able to use z/osmf to list the Buckets defined for a user and possibly enter the acces...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

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

Health check IBMRRS,RRS_RMDOFFLOADSIZE false exception

Even after changing the logstream LS_SIZE and rebuild the structure, meaning new offload datasets will be created with the new size, the check still gives an exception incorrectly stating that "Multiple offload data sets" might be created on an of...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 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the current behavior of the FRRECOV CP(nn) processing in DS8K incremental FlashCopy environment, the FC relationship is withdrawn after FC background copy (BGC) completion.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

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

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

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

Populate SMF 82 40 CMACZERO fingerprint for more key types

Having a single key fingerprint or checksum in the SMF data leads to collisions when trying to validate that the same key is not present in multiple environments. Having a second fingerprint in the SMF 82 40 records would help us to determine whet...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Future consideration

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