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IODF - HCD Report and Activate TEST Miss to report Explicit Device Changes

IODF Activate TEST and HCD Compare report doesn't report on the Exclusive Device list changes and Activate test result to use Force without giving more information about what is being deleted(in this case changes in the device exclusive list) whic...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

Implement an autostart feature for workflows so that instantiating a workflow with an auto-enabled step automatically starts the workflow too

Currently, The POST /zosmf/workflow/rest/{version}/workflows endpoint will only create a workflow instance. A separate call to the PUT /zosmf/workflow/rest/{version}/workflows/{workflowKey}/operations/start endpoint needs to be made in order to st...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

SRCHFOR cmd within ISRDDN ( DDLIST ) utility

It seems to me that SRCHFOR cmd within ISRDDN utility could be helpful.
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Future consideration

ISPF LMMLIST and LMDLIST should provide discrete info on each member generation

Currently in 3.1 (based on what I learned at SHARE) LMMLIST and LMDLIST provide information on the base generation and then information on the number of generations saved the most recent absolute generation, and the max number of generations. This...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

SMP/E HOLDSYS to exclude ENH & make ENH as stand alone item to BYPASS

The default of HOLDSYS includes ENH.This RFE proposes/suggests/recommends to exclude ENH from HOLDSYS. And make ENH stand alone, such as HOLDENH.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF Table Services with TBHIDE and TBFLIP capability

When developing an ISPF application using tables the ability to filter the table display can significantly improve the user experience. To filter today requires that rows be deleted to remove them from the display and then added back when the filt...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Better support for PDS members in z/OS C library

The z/OS C library has poor support for PDS and PDS/E. Specifically, when using fopen() to read or write members, there are no facilities to: 1) obtain existing user directory entry info (read and write)2) update user directory info (write)3) supp...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

IRRADU00 support for IBM MFA SMF Type 83 subtype 7

IRRADU00 should support SMF Type 83 subtype 7 records created by IBM MFA. Currently, I seeIRR67654I The SMF record type 83 subtype 7 for product 5655MFA01 - IBM Multi-Factor Authentication for z/OS with FMID is unknownIRR67581I The failing record,...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Provide a refresh button in instances view for a provisioning instance so it's easy to follow its progress while it's running

During a deprovisioning run, a refresh button is available which allows clients to follow the progress of the deprovisioning run. This allows clients to follow progress of the deprovisioning run without having to leave the Software Services -> ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

make it possible to adapt/customize the motd (Message of the day)

Customers require sometimes that the use of zCX adheres to customer policies & rules. They want to communicate this via motd.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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