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zERT Report as well the timestamp

As all records that are loaded into zERT to analyze in the zOSMF Plugin do contain a timestamp, it must be possible to report on the time as requested here as well ZOS-I-3473 but additionally when running a report over few days or a single day, zE...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

CSSMTP sender address for undeliverable error reports

When using CSSMTP parameter >ReturnToMailFrom Yes< in Configuration Statement >Undeliverable<, CSSMTP creates an error report mail for the sender of an undeliverable mail. The sender address of the error report mail is created by CSSMT...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

SDSF Support Next DS and Prev DS from individual Dataset

Enable the Next and Prev command when viewing an individual spool file. This is currently supported if the view is of the entire JOB. Specifically, to use the SDSF terminology, please allow 'switching' to the Next or Previous dataset when the curr...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA TCPIP profile - allow unresolved symbols in promoted configuration file

A lot of work has gone into adding the ability to maintain the TCPIP Profile in the Network Configuration Assistant The TCPIP command xportprof makes it easy to import the existing configurations into the NCA . It brings in the values for used sym...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

Add VLAN tagging capability to OSA ICC in the advanced facilities configuration - z feature code 0455

The OSA 1GE cards do support VLAN tagging .. but the OSA-ICC “appliance” does not support VLAN tagging. UPS is requesting that VLAN Tagging support be added to the Advanced Facilities configuration option for the OSA-ICC server
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF export/import of configuration definitions

We have more than one z/OSMF running in more then one sysplex. We would like to export and import some of the configured functions from one z/OSMF to the other. For example - z/OS Operator Consoles- Links- FTP Servers- etc Same as for Network Conf...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Health check MSGBASED

On a GDPS Metro installation there is a GDPS health checker called GDPS_CHECK_XCF that cheks for the XCF CFRM MSGBASED protocol. It raises a high priority alert whenever the LPAR that does the MSGBASED role is a KP system. However when the situati...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

FS command in SDSF should show ZFS flags like RW,RS,NE,NC,CO ...

FS commands shos statistics about zFS file systems, however it does not show the flags that can be displayed by zfsadm fsinfo '*'
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Provide a DISPLAY PROCLIB command similar to D PARMLIB

Please provide DISPLAY PROCLIB|STCJOBS command similar to the DISPLAY PARMLIB command.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Future consideration

ADRDSSU RESTORE to allow target system SMS attributes

While running z/OSMF PSI to install z/OSv2r5, Job IZUD05UZ invokes GIMUNZIP which calls ADRDSSU to RESTORE the zFS data set. Unfortunately the target data set always get the DATACLAS value from the source data set. Thus the target zFS gets the DAT...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration