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Provide a way for applications to authenticate through an HTTP/HTTPS proxy within zOSMF

In order to use a one of two functions within zOSMF which need internet access, our network is configured to pass through a filtering proxy service. This service both tracks pages we access and validates that we are allowed to access the page we'r...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add option to include top 3 lines in the SDSF SNAPSHOT

SDSF SNAPSHOT/SNAP command is useful when issues and IBM asks for a list of the running jobs, but every time we send a SNAP to them, they ask if we have the top 3 lines of the display (title line, command line, and Display options line). Having an...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Member List - Add Block Line Commands

Allow Member List line commands to be entered in blocks. A block of line commands is marked by entering two forward slashcharacters (//) at the start and end of the block. The required line command is entered on the first or last line of theblock,...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

Add GIT functionality when using "dataset and file search"

It would be very handy if a GIT plugin would be available to perform GIT functions on USS files. In our shop we use GIT for version control for some of our configuration files. We now use other interfaces to issue the GIT commands but it would be ...
12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Ignore invalid entries in the AUTOMOUNT policy and activate the policy with valid entries.

We've had a directory in our automount policy that did not actually exist for some time and it has not had any ill effects from IPL to IPL of lpars in the sysplex. This past weekend we had a sysplex outage and the unallocated directory prevented t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

End user must be able to handle custom secureboot keys on s390x

On all securebootable platforms end user can- wipe secureboot keys- provision own secureboot keys- reset to stock secureboot keys And boot bootloader / kernel is only signed by keys that end user controls. This has many properties of securing syst...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Future consideration

Optimize repartition of the LPAR on the several drawers of the Z

Today the algorithm of repartition of the LPAR on the several drawers is to fill the first drawer, then the second one etcIf you use few CP and few memory, all your partitions will be started on the same drawer with a L4 cache shared with all the ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Future consideration

Enhance applmsg/dmsmsg macro to not require a base register

The APPLMSG macro uses the DMSMSG macro which generates code that unnecessarily requires a base register. See attached macro expansion. The red instruction is the one that causes a base register to be required. The MVC is badly coded, there's no n...
almost 7 years ago in z/VM 2 Future consideration

REXX SAY should use PUTLINE

REXX Say should use PUTLINE when under TSO so that the results can be trapped using outtrap.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow service to update (add assignees) workflow steps

We need an interface to add additional user or groups to steps of a workflow.(It would be o.k. for us if this information could be provided on workflow creation)To fit with the existing workflow services I recommend a genericPATCH /zosmf/workflow/...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration