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SMP/E unconditional exclude

SMP/E RSU maintenance is standard process for many users. Our case is simple. We applied maintenance and found sysmod which caused problem for our application. We restored sysmod which caused issue. In next maintenance cycle we run RSU maintenance...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Override Unique WorkflowName Requirement

Creating an override to bypass the unique zOSMF WorkflowNames requirement
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF ISPF Plugin - TSO Privileged Logon

Via zOSMF ISPF plugin it is not possible to do a PRIVILEGED "SUBSYS(HASP)" TSO Logon.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Be able to enforce use of FCTOPPRCPRIMARY(PRESMIRREQ) when FASTREPLICATION(PREF) or FASTREPLICATION(REQ) is specified

In a GDPS Metro Mirror environment, use of FASTREPLICATION can lead to devices going into duplex pending state, causing the system to be unable to perform a hyperswap. When FASTREPLICATION(REQ) or FASTREPLICATION(PREF) is in place (either specifie...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Make workflow variable exportable to reuse them as input file

At the moment, the only possibility to save the variables of a workflow is to write a script, which writes them into a file by executing the echo command for every variable. This is not handy at all if you have a lot of variables. It would be grea...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Improve ability to migrate automation following system upgrade

Many folks need to do things that require running commands through MAINTxxx. System upgrades end up losing modifications made to allow those. This would simplify maintaining those needs during and upgrade.
almost 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

REALLOCATE executed on System with LOSSCONN to CF and failed

After a loss of connectivity for 2 out of 14 z/OS images to a CF, the client put the problem CF in MAINTMODE and did a SETXCF REALLOCATE to clear the structures to do hardware recovery. The REALLOCATE process shifted to one of the 2 z/OS images th...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to add workflows to the end of software deployment

Add the end of a software deployment it would be helpful to run self-written workflows. These workflows should be associated with the category seleted at the start of the deployment in the step "Specify the properties of this deployment."
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

DFSMS DSS enhancement

We would like DFDSS BUILDSA support enhanced to create an IPL'able CD/DVD in order to IPL the standalone-restore process from the system z HMC DVD. Current BUILDSA only supports tape, cards and disk. Since the IBM COD process already supports this...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Create command to list a users number of USS processes (in use and highwater!!)

SYSTEM : z/OS Unix System ServicesActor : KBC needs a new feature We have a need to lower our MAXPROCUSER setting to protect system stability. We use USS for many critical business processes. Description : There is no command to list the max used ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration