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Make automated/manual behavior consistent when submitting/saving JCL for workflow steps

If a workflow step is marked for automation and has <submitAs> set to JCL and a name in the <saveAsDataset> element then there is different behavior depending upon whether the customer is running the step manually or automated. When ex...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Give better warning when hitting Finish without performing step in workflow

When manually processing a workflow step, the user can hit Finish from the Instructions tab by accident and the step gets marked Complete. While there is text above the instructions, that text is not real "visible" as the customer's focus is on th...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Intermittent FCNOCOPY FCTOPPRCP(PRESMIRREQ) Failures with ADR935W

IBM requested that this RFE be defined with a Product/Component of Preserve Mirror/5675DF117.I was unable to select these through the submit process so I have included the note above to ensure this request gets properly assigned. We are a 4-site G...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Enhanced ICSF Query Facility to display cryptographic hardware segment information

We would like an enhanced CSFIQF ICSF query that would provide cryptographic segment 1-3 configuration detail similar to that provided within the HMC displays. (an example of the HMC segment information we would like to see as part of an CSFIQF fu...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Future consideration

General settings page for workflows to set time-limitations

Support a new general setting page in Workflows and the user can set the time-limitation for all workflow users in this new general setting page, the time limitation can be set for different scopes, for example: the time limitation can be set for ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

For space (Sx37) abends, report nn VOLUMES nnn EXT nnnnnn TRK used.

When you have a space abend, it is hard to determine how much space you had allocated if the dataset is deleted. Giving a count of number of volumes, extents, and tracks would be a great help. Listing each volume with number of extents and tracks ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 3 Future consideration

RMF Recording KiloBytes Transferred

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSEWCP98002: Voting Priority=2.5 +5=2 +4=1 +3=8 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=4 -1=1 Priority=2.5 (Please ignore the vote of 0.0 elsewhere) RMF should collect the kilobytes (KB) transferred for each device on an inter...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Health Checks formatted in a dump

Health check exception information should be included in a dump with IPCS formatters provided.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Future consideration

Add the sum option to the UCLASS subcommand in Performance Toolkit

z/VSE is eligible for sub-capacity pricing. Then on it could be valuable to know how evolves the sum of the CPU load for all VSE's for which sub-pricing capacity is applied. The FCONTROL DEFLOG subcommand of the Performance Toolkit allows defining...
over 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Inventory Export of Software Instances (Software Management) for ShopZ

Currently I have to export an inventory of SMPE/e Zone by a GIMXSID job, then download it to my workstation and then upload it into shopZ. This would be quicker if there would be a possibility to get this by html download directly from z/OSMF Soft...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

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