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IODF - HCD Report and Activate TEST Miss to report Explicit Device Changes

IODF Activate TEST and HCD Compare report doesn't report on the Exclusive Device list changes and Activate test result to use Force without giving more information about what is being deleted(in this case changes in the device exclusive list) whic...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

Display more than eight Systems in ISMF panels

When displaying the volumes of a storage group MVS and SMS statuses for only eight systems are shown (e.g panelid DGTLGP36). In environments with more systems it is toilsome to get an overview especially when there is a large number of disks in th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

zOSMF ISPF Plugin - TSO Privileged Logon

Via zOSMF ISPF plugin it is not possible to do a PRIVILEGED "SUBSYS(HASP)" TSO Logon.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide a refresh button in instances view for a provisioning instance so it's easy to follow its progress while it's running

During a deprovisioning run, a refresh button is available which allows clients to follow the progress of the deprovisioning run. This allows clients to follow progress of the deprovisioning run without having to leave the Software Services -> ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Make String variable text box re-sizable

I created a string variable called "fileContent" and mapped it to the response body from a GET REST API call. The GET REST API reads the contents of a dataset member. My goal is to edit the file contents in the variable and do a PUT REST API to up...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

DFSMS DSS enhancement

We would like DFDSS BUILDSA support enhanced to create an IPL'able CD/DVD in order to IPL the standalone-restore process from the system z HMC DVD. Current BUILDSA only supports tape, cards and disk. Since the IBM COD process already supports this...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

SMP/E HOLDSYS to exclude ENH & make ENH as stand alone item to BYPASS

The default of HOLDSYS includes ENH.This RFE proposes/suggests/recommends to exclude ENH from HOLDSYS. And make ENH stand alone, such as HOLDENH.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

zOSMF Properties of Workflow Screen needs to allow others in the group to see all tabs

If a racf group in addition to to a individual are assigned to to a task/step, the members of the team that were not the individual owners of a task/step could not see any of the info in the Dependencies, Perform, Status, Input Variables, and Feed...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

REALLOCATE executed on System with LOSSCONN to CF and failed

After a loss of connectivity for 2 out of 14 z/OS images to a CF, the client put the problem CF in MAINTMODE and did a SETXCF REALLOCATE to clear the structures to do hardware recovery. The REALLOCATE process shifted to one of the 2 z/OS images th...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

IRRADU00 support for IBM MFA SMF Type 83 subtype 7

IRRADU00 should support SMF Type 83 subtype 7 records created by IBM MFA. Currently, I seeIRR67654I The SMF record type 83 subtype 7 for product 5655MFA01 - IBM Multi-Factor Authentication for z/OS with FMID is unknownIRR67581I The failing record,...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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