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SMP/E

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SMP/E: APPLY Processing Should Perform MOUNTs & UNMOUNTs for OE

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00070649User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE98503Title: SMP/E: APPLY Processing Should Perform MOUNTs & UNMOUNTs for OESubmitted By: US359049Originators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Kurt J. Quackenbu...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Option to restrict UNIX System Services authority to SMP/E work

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0827083956User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE08010Title: Option to restrict UNIX System Services authority to SMP/E workSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Define Volumes as first step in z/OSMF Serverpac Deployment

It would be helpful to provide the capability in z/OSMF, as part of a Serverpac install, to add a step that defines and builds ICKDSF JCL to initialize volume names which will be used in the Deployment Checklist step, to assign datasets to a speci...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Provide SMPE GIMAPI with a facility to w

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR062511467User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE08006Title: Provide SMPE GIMAPI with a facility to wait for datasetsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS U...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Option to restrict UNIX System Services

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR062511468User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE08010Title: Option to restrict UNIX System Services authority to SMP/E workSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

SMP/E Warning Message When All PTFs are

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR062511464User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE03037Title: SMP/E Warning Message When All PTFs are NOT SELSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : M...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration