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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

CEE3USR equivalent function at the Process Level

LE provides the CEE3USR function to anchor storage at the Enclave level. We would like to use a CEE3USR equivalent function at the Process level. We currently use the LE routine CEEPCB_ZGETST to get Process-Level storage. We'd like to anchor it of...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Add a resource pool for provisioning DASD

As suggested by Mr. Ken Irwin, I would propose to have something similar currently existing for port provisioning, but for DASD. The idea is to set the workflows to provision/deprovision DASD on demand. IRWIN, KEN J 5/02/18 22:30Checking current d...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Add IPv6 support to XTI API running in a language environment

We need to have IPv6 support for XTI C API running under a language environment. currently t_* calls support only IPv4.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Support Symbols LogDD also in DD:SYSTSIN

Hello, If using symbol logging combined with DD SYSTSIN in Tso-batch job //SYSTSIN DD *,SYMBOLS(xxxx,logdd)... then Loggdd is ignored now (as mentioned in JCL Reference) OA53706 does some changes in jes2 code that may support logging in this case ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

64-bit support for CEE3LNG

CEE3LNG doesn't have 64-bit support.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Add Support for RFC 3522 - Unnecessary Loss Recovery

The Eifel detection algorithm (RFC 3522) allows a TCP sender to detect a posteriori whether it has entered loss recovery unnecessarily.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

For RRS_DELAYED_TRANSACTIONS Check, give customers ability to adjust transaction duration time

After activating RRS Healthchecker check RRS_DELAYED_TRANSACTIONS in z/OS 2.2, we encountered many instances of the check flagging exceptions, but the next interval the check runs, it is successful. Since the exception is only for one interval, it...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 1 Future consideration

Attaching 64 bit executable and passing parameters and env variables

In our 32 bit application we used an ATTACH macro to create a process and:- share subpools 0 and 1 (used macro paramaters SZERO=YES,SHSPV=1)- pass a list of arguments- pass a list of env variables However when we started attaching 64 bit executabl...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Add MBCS support to FTP

Need to be able to translate MBCS files like UTF-8 files on PC's to a compatible CMS file structure. Input Files like this: A2017/02/06 10:10:56 J'aurais donc dû USA 2/7UNIMASA2017/02/06 10:10:56 CPEQUEÑOS GIGANTES USA 2/8UNIMASA2017/02/06 10:10:5...
over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration