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Provisioning workflow for zCX instance provisioning

Current standalone workflow to provision zCX instances is very well made. We believe zCX instance provisioning should also be made available as a provisoning workflow, which would include all the additional configuration done by z/OSMF cloud provi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Zert database access layer

The goal to have some level of role-based access controls within the zERT Network Analyzer application itself. For example, there could be a role that can only execute queries and view the reports, another that can create, update and delete querie...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

DFSORT Y2x fields WTO or SMF field

We need a way to identify all DFSORT job steps using Y2x fields. We want to get away from using 2-digit years and the need to periodically update the Y2PAST/CENTURY/CENTWIN global options. For this we need to take an inventory of what is actually ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

New option to suppress the MDRDMT records from the logrec

The Itau bank has a very large TS7700 tape environment with a heavy workload.We want an option to turn off the MDRDMT records from the logrec, it is necessary because depending the quantity of logical volumes mount requests, sometimes the logrec d...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Have JCL symbol for PDS submitted from

Have a JCL symbol to be the PDS where a job was submitted from. so I can have JCL like//MYJOB JOB// INCLUDE &mypds(DEFS)
about 4 years ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

TSO & ISPF need services to show whether a file is ZFS

Neither basic TSO/E nor ISPF have services that will show that a dataset has been formatted as a ZFS filesystem. ISPF services DSINFO and LMDLIST (including option 3.4) should indicate that a VSAM file is a ZFS. LISTCAT shows this under the ATTRIB...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

HCD - Use 64-bit virtual storage to print HCD report through CBDJRPTS

CBDJRPTS uses a lot of private area to print HCD reports, reaching a limit where some reports cannot be printed, depending on the size of the IODF. For larger IODFs, we suggest using data spaces or 64-bit virtual storage instead of a private addre...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

Unsupported NJE remote executed commands improvement

The existing implementation of the $N command for NJE remote command execution does not fully support all commands. For instance, the $TA and $VS commands when send via the $N routing results in the issuance of $HASP649 - this is not a good error ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Ehance OpenSSH security initialization code to add the application name

Please enhance all OpenSSH code to add APPL to RACINIT/REQUEST=VERIFYs. What we do currently with a ICHRIX01 is check if the jobname matches SSHD* then copy Jobname into APPL field pointed to in the RIXPL. Or in other words the security initializa...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Future consideration

IEE707I Should show more than first 8 Bytes of the input verb

Because the message only shows the first 8 Bytes of the input verb, the message shows partial information that can be unusefull or misleading.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Future consideration