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Warning about problems during code page conversion while uploading and downloading text data

Product: Zowe CLI, VS Code Extension for Zowe Actor: User editing data from z/OS datasets, members, or UNIX files on a workstation and using a different encoding than IBM-1047 on the mainframe (e.g. IBM-870, IBM-037, IBM-273...) in the text mode P...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

New Security Type for HTTP and OCSP in System SSL

With enabled Certificate revocation status checking in ATTLS, system SLL offers 3 different security types for HTTP and OSCP (RevocationSecurityLevel = Low, Medium or High) LowCertificate validation does not fail if the OCSP responder or HTTP serv...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

DSFS CreateParm should NOT require a previous allocation under secondary qualifiers

When using the dsadm createparm the -path requires that at least one dataset already be allocated under the provided hlq. Other than the 1st qualifier, that should not be required.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

DSFS Fileinfo should report ALL models under HLQ

When using the dsadm fileinfo to query the file information, it should report on ALL pds/psmodels under the hlq.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF StorageAPI - GetVolumeList MissingField: PhysicalStatus

We are using z/OSMF Storage API for checking, if all Devices are online. So if anyone varies a disk offline, the check (in CheckMK) gives us a hint. Currently we had the problem: A StoragePool was extended with two more disks, the Pool-Freespace w...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Relax dsadm createparm restrictions

Currently dsadm createparm has restrictions which makes it difficult to use. The HLQ specified for createparm much match the userid that is issueing the createparm command. This makes it impossible to use for HLQ's which are not related to userids...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

FCIC JOB takes long time with msg IGD17291I.

When the client tries to take DB2 image copy by a use of FlashCopy, it takes very long time with msg IGD17291I.This IGD1729I message means, "when the initial allocation can not be satisfied on one volume, it will try to add additional volumes to t...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Using GCP Workload Identity Federation in DFSMS Cloud Data Access

We've had discussions, about the security, with our internal Cloud Core team and they're suggesting to use GCP Workload Identity Federation instead of GCP service account json file and it's going to improve the security issues significantly.
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Create new class B command to refresh stored DASD info without VARY OFF/ON the device

At present, for CP to see updated DASD info (like VOLSER, VTOC, etc), a device must be varied off/on to refresh the data. If the disk has been relabeled by a guest using full-pack minidisk, then the guest sees different information than a user wit...
9 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration