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Include the Rexx Execs documented in Appendix E of the CMS User's Guide and Reference.

Appendix E of the CMS User's Guide and Reference (SC24-6252-01) describes in great detail how to build Pipelines function packages in Rexx. However, the needed exec to actually do this (the FPLKWDTB, FPLEPTBL, and FPLMSGTB exercs) are not shipped ...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

DFSMShsm FRRECOV enhancement to control FC relationship after FC background copy completion

With the current behavior of the FRRECOV CP(nn) processing in DS8K incremental FlashCopy environment, the FC relationship is withdrawn after FC background copy (BGC) completion. Therefore full volume copy is needed on next FRBACKUP CP(nn) incremen...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF - ISPF app, option to choose background color and/or a z/OSMF 3270 Terminal like Zowe Desktop has.

z/OSMF - For the ISPF app, having the option to choose a background color would be great. Specifically to doctor the ISPF app to resemble a 3270 emulator default color scheme. The white background the apps in z/OSMF tends to strain eyes after awhi...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION monitor *MASTER* address space

Check PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION should monitor *MASTER* storage exhaustion.Usually when the master address space storage exhausts an IPL is needed to recover. This would not be necessary if PFA had alerted on the gradual storage inflation cau...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 1 Planned for future release

zCX restart capability

Provide the ability to restart zCX. E-mails have been sent to the zCX team.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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

When TCPIP stack encountered outbound errors which should produce alert messages for user.

This idea is related to IBM support case TS010912081 that the customer HKEX thought TCPIP should produce alert messages for user when it is encountering outbound type errors.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF notifications should support the use of HTTP - Proxy

We get the following error, when we try to use the z/OSMF - notifications - service: The connection to the host "https://ibm-zevent.mybluemix.net/messages" failed in push service "IBM Bluemix" . In our production environment it is not possible for...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Reconnecting OTIS after the corresponding Db2 was started in Maintenance Mode and later in Operating Mode ( OAM recognize this this )

When a Db2 instance is stopped and started normally the corresponding OAM and OTIS reconnect to it as expected. If this Db2 is stopped and started in Maintenance Mode OAM acknowledges this and reconnect to this Db2 when it is started afterwards in...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 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

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