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SA JES2 SPOOL monitor to detect unusual growth

In normal operation, JES2 spool can fill up and notification is received when we hit the JES2 warning level. The warning level we currently have set is 80% and we have SPOOLSHORT commands in-place to reduce this. However, what we do not have is vi...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Add a Plugin to Execute Scripts (Python, Shell) from z/OSMF Desktop Interface

When using z/OSMF as a management tool, through the Desktop interface, there is currently no way to access Unix System Services (USS) outside of using the ISPF Plugin. When editing a shell script or Python script, I have to swap between z/OSMF and...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow suppression of TSO message OPERATOR ACTION HAS BEEN REQUESTED FOR YOUR DATA SET when accessing GDG tape

The current experience for when a TSO user opens GDG tape datasets via dynamic allocation is the user will receive message on screen "OPERATOR ACTION HAS BEEN REQUESTED FOR YOUR DATA SET" for each dataset referenced. This happens because a TPUT is...
6 months ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

JES2 JOBGROUP protection

JES2 jobgroups deliver easy possibilities for basic dependency definition of jobs. Anyway, the access to the use of jobgroups shouldn't be allowed for anyone. It should be possible to protect the access to JES2 jobgroups by a RACF ressource like i...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Release BCPii commands to manage ADD/REMOVE Partitions, inside CAPACITY GROUP resources for zXX IBM Processors

It could be useful for Customer called to dynamically change (expecially if required in recursively way) Lpars associated to Capacity Groups. I think it could be made available via new simple HWISET BCPii commands inside z/OS platform. Actually th...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

A mechanism that uses RACF protected ids (and equivalent for other ESMs) without storing them off platform to ensure they are secure

The automation solution will use a series of privileged interactive service accounts to fulfil user requests. Any solution to protect those ids e.g. OTP, ssh key pairs, needs to use the ESM to store the security credentials, They must not be store...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Need support for AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) when using CDA

We are attempting to use CDA to write to an AWS S3 bucket. We had initial setup issues but resolved them. We were trying to request some information from the client about obtaining the SECRET KEY, and were told that process was not allowed because...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Please add NJE routing to z/OSMF Job Submission

I am opening this on behalf of a customer (see business justification). The customer runs 5-10 z/OS instances in a sysplex but they run as many as 4 JES2 MAS's within a single sysplex. In order for z/OSMF to route jobs to a system today it uses SY...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Change z/OSMF Software Management to add "Import and Receive Enhanced HOLDDATA"

z/OSMF brings new capabilities to z/OS. The one handful is the Software Management, but one thing that could be added is to download (or upload) enhanced holddata and receive it. Today it is only possible to list the missing HIPERs (and PEs) but r...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Modify ASCII BROWSE to honor Unix line break characters, like ASCII VIEW/EDIT already do

When using BROWSE in ASCII mode, CRLF characters in the Unix filesystem are not honored. The CRLF characters are honored in ASCII VIEW/EDIT. If the XML file size is smaller than 32761, the records are flowed onto one line of length 32760 (maximum ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

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