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z/OSMF Let ?Create Workflow? to set ?Users can take ownership of steps automatical

In z/OSMF Workflow, Allow "Create Workflow" process to set "Users can take ownership of steps automatically" rather than requiring setting only in WF Editor. For same reasons as "set Owner on all steps to User" in Create Workflow. Particularly for...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Support Permanently Register Products (IFAEDREG / IFAUSAGE)

The IFAEDREG and IFAUSAGE services should support the ability to permanently register a product for the life of the IPL.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Need indication in ACS routine that SMSHONOR has been specified

We have a variety of systems that have very different logic in the ACS routines and most of them utilize the UNIT parameter for determination of assignment. As such, it has always been a challenge to get the proper assignment in cases when we want...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Not under consideration

Simplify Cleanup of Config assist objects

We have been using zOSMF over the past few years and over that time there are orphaned objects that are just taking up space (Traffic Discrptors, Requirement maps, etc). There needs to be a way to filter out those things that are not part of a sta...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF import policy data not possible with a userid that only can perform logon with a passphrase

I am not able to import policy data in the configuration assistant plugin in z/OSMF with a userid that only has a password phrase. Our high privileged users do not have a password, they have a password phrase only. The import policy data password ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Remove macro expansion branch instruction opcode dependencies from LE runtime routines

At least one LE runtime function (CEEVTOVF) uses branch instruction opcodes within macro expansions (at least EDCPRLG) to determine the language of the caller and bases actions on that language. Assembler macros IEABRC and IEABRCX interfere with t...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Workflow Notification - too general and does not open directly to assigned step

z/OSMF currently sends a notification to a user when a certain step in the workflow is assigned to him/her. However, the notification is too general and doesn't contain details of the step. The link, once clicked, doesn't also directly open to the...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

SNA network mapping tool

As a z/OS network systems programmer I am sometimes involved in new projects where I have only minimal info regarding design of the customer's network. If I want to understand it then I need to manually scan the network and create appropriate netw...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enable SFTP transfer as well for zOSMF CA

We would like to se an enhancement to zOSMF CA to add the ability choose between FTPS or SFTP.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

SYSPLEX Autonomics detects on IPL that EZBDVIPA Structure is not available

We need Sysplex Autonomics to add the ability to see if the EZBDVIPA structure is available since we use SWSA support extensively.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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