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SMP/E warning message for installed excluded sysmods

SYSMODs that are superseded by another SYSMOD being applied are not excluded even if they are specified on the EXCLUDE operand.Additionally apply and apply check does not provide any information - warning messages, that excluded ptfs were implemen...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

SMP/E unconditional exclude

SMP/E RSU maintenance is standard process for many users. Our case is simple. We applied maintenance and found sysmod which caused problem for our application. We restored sysmod which caused issue. In next maintenance cycle we run RSU maintenance...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Override Unique WorkflowName Requirement

Creating an override to bypass the unique zOSMF WorkflowNames requirement
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Generating SAN Certificate via GSKKYMAN Utility under OMVS

Hello Team , Currently we are generating SAN certificate under OMVS via utility GSKKYMAN , while choosing certain option 1 /2 etc to generate the CSR . We are in a process to transform this manual / labor intensive work in our environment via some...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Future consideration

Externalize the ISPF 3.4 FREE option

ISPF 3.4 (DSLIT) provides a FREE dataset selection option that will release unused space. Please provide an external interface via an ISPF Service that will accomplish this so that it can be used programatically.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Copy and Paste Functionality of the output within z/OSMF should be in a readable format

When our Operations Team forward an Incident/Problem ticket to the second level support or any other team for further analysis, they put their findings, i.e. copy the required details and paste it in the ticket, so that second level support does n...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to add workflows to the end of software deployment

Add the end of a software deployment it would be helpful to run self-written workflows. These workflows should be associated with the category seleted at the start of the deployment in the step "Specify the properties of this deployment."
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Message for when Join does not occur due to Moninterface issue

We had an issue where we were doing some maintenance on our Sandbox system where we had MONINTERFACE coded. The engineer dynamically deleted the interfaces and re added them, minus the Moninterface. When we realized that we weren’t in the TCPPLEX ...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

make it possible to adapt/customize the motd (Message of the day)

Customers require sometimes that the use of zCX adheres to customer policies & rules. They want to communicate this via motd.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Create command to list a users number of USS processes (in use and highwater!!)

SYSTEM : z/OS Unix System ServicesActor : KBC needs a new feature We have a need to lower our MAXPROCUSER setting to protect system stability. We use USS for many critical business processes. Description : There is no command to list the max used ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration