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RACF Validation of External JWT for CICS Provider RESTFul and Web Services

CICS RESTFUL and WEB Services most commonly execute in provider modes, receiving messages from external sources. A facility in RACF to validate JWT for CICS Web Services and RESTFUL from externally provided JWT would enable CICS applications to be...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

JES2 - Improve reaction to PROCLIB moves and Open/Close

In the above IBM Case we described a problem on one of our customer's system, whereby a PROC(00) data set was moved by the customer to a new volume and the catalogue entry adapted (DELETE & DEFINE NONVSAM). We do realise this is not a good thi...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

DSFS CreateParm should NOT require a previous allocation under secondary qualifiers

When using the dsadm createparm the -path requires that at least one dataset already be allocated under the provided hlq. Other than the 1st qualifier, that should not be required.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

DSFS Fileinfo should report ALL models under HLQ

When using the dsadm fileinfo to query the file information, it should report on ALL pds/psmodels under the hlq.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF StorageAPI - GetVolumeList MissingField: PhysicalStatus

We are using z/OSMF Storage API for checking, if all Devices are online. So if anyone varies a disk offline, the check (in CheckMK) gives us a hint. Currently we had the problem: A StoragePool was extended with two more disks, the Pool-Freespace w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Relax dsadm createparm restrictions

Currently dsadm createparm has restrictions which makes it difficult to use. The HLQ specified for createparm much match the userid that is issueing the createparm command. This makes it impossible to use for HLQ's which are not related to userids...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Automated way to identify needed maintenance

Get an alert that would tell what recent releases are available to be able to stay up to date on maintenance.
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Changing "PRI/SEC/DIR BLKS" during a Deployment operation in z/OSMF Software Management

Using the CustomPac ISPF Dialogs, we previously had the ability to change the dataset allocations for PDS/ZFS datasets shipped via ServerPac to allow for local growth, removal of secondaries & increase of dir blocks. As zOS 2.5 is now shipped ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS General/Unknown 2 Future consideration

Replace some of the basic IEFUTL functionality with PARMLIB parameters

Everyone is trying to reduce their reliance on assembler exits due to the lack of assembler resource available these days. We use IEFUTL to override when batch jobs are cancelled by the JWT parameter in SMFPRMxx and nothing more. I'm sure it would...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance "Coordinated Graphical Views for Systems Panel" in z/OSMF V2R1 SPE3+

In the August 29 "System z Mainframe Simplification" workgroup call the "Coordinated Graphical Views for Systems Panel" was presented. By now the view is only a collection of CECs and LPARs including their detail information. There are many more a...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 44 Future consideration

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