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z/OS

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How to print the $HASP138 SPIN message written to CEEMSG to SYSLOG or JESMSGLG?

We split the CEEMSG DD of CICS with the following line:// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (UNALLOC, 10M)==> ceemsg output:08.38.16 S0310063 İHASP138 CEEMSG SPIN HAS OCCURRED BECAUSE OF LINE COUNT or we use "time":// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (U...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow engine to provide access to zOSMF JWT/LTPA token

When creating a zOSMF workflow step that invokes an External RESTapi, it would be useful to have access to the current z/OSMF user's JWT token in order to use the bearer token in an API call for other z/OS services. APIs that go through Zowe's API...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Spot compatibility issue before run-time

Link-edit message IEW2576I is issued by z/OS BINDER and program run-time failed with S0C1. IEW2576I 5034 RESULTANT AMODE( 24 ) OF ENTRY POINT AND RMODE( ANY ) OF SEGMENT 2 MAY BE INCOMPATIBLE. Since module should have RMODE(24) if it is call...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 1 Planned for future release

z/OSMF create your own category on left bar

At the moment it is not possible to create your own category for your personal links on the left bar of the z/OSMF panel.You can only create a new link for a given category or create it as a "no category" button.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Not under consideration

Rebuild masterkey - securise the masterkey change procedure with ICSF

Two Security Officers (OS) want to build a masterkey with two key parts from the menus ISPF/ICSF 1. The two OS are connected on the Panel CSFDKE50 ( ICSF - Master Key Entry) at the same time 2. The first OS informs: • Key Type: ECC-MK • Part: Firs...
8 months ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Is a defect

Display logging options in use for z/OSMF

With the 'F zosmfserver, D IZU' command only the logging options are displayed which z/OSMF has read from PARMLIB\ at startup.We need a way to display what logging options are effectively in actual use.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Automatic procedure to extract the WLM Policy

We need an improvement for the WLM code to provide us a way to extract the WLM Policy without manual intervetion.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 3 Future consideration

Need to see zCX information from SDSF (requires API)

Sysprogs need to see information about zCX address spaces from SDSF. This requires an API, so SDSF and other products can extract information. Information requested (provide information from the zCX joblog when zCX initializes - i.e. zCX type, ver...
8 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

List uncatalogued PDS members with Z/OSMF API

Being able to list uncatalogued PDS members from the Z/OSMF API would be extremely helpful for the development of software for automating z/OS OS upgrades on our systems as well of lots of other tests and validations that we need to do. Currently ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

FS command in SDSF should show ZFS flags like RW,RS,NE,NC,CO ...

FS commands shos statistics about zFS file systems, however it does not show the flags that can be displayed by zfsadm fsinfo '*'
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration