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Provide a percentage status of DFHSM expirebv process completion

Currently, the expirebv process for our dfhsmuss (file mode host) environment runs for days and would be nice to see a percentage completion IE, 25%, 50%, 77% completed.
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

EDGJNSCR in SYS1.SAMPLIB changes required

There are several errors in the EDGJNSCR samplib member. We ship several sample reporting jobs in SYS1.SAMPLIB, that are based on non-extended records but the job itself is does not specify this in its description. We should update the sample job ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Workflow editor - Possible to create jobcard .

Be able to define specific jobcard for a jcl step when create a workflow definition file in workflow editor.In the specific jobcard, to be able to use variables as well, like for other jcl.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

JES2 - no automatic Reconfiguration driven after Site Outage

After a planned SITE1 outage we saw that JES2 Reconfiguration was started driven by member "x", but just a few seconds later member "x" was QUIESCED as it was running in SITE1. Because of that we see that member "Y" has taken over with RECONFIGURA...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Network Configuration Assistant Install History maintenance

The configuration assistant keeps all the installation history for a stack forever. The only way to reduce the history today is to remove it entirely by copying the stack to a new entity, delete the stack and rename the new entity to the stack nam...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Option To Set A Logoff Timer For Users Showing As Disconnected

We have noticed that when some users are in Adapter panels and LPAR Controls (Possibly others) evem if they only have view access that they seem to lock the task out so others cannot access it. This seems to then remain locked even when the userid...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Future consideration

Allow a signed workflow definition to reside on a remote system

We keep our workflow (WF) definitions on one system, and then pull them from various systems around the globe when creating WF instances. We want to be able to have a zOS related WF that calls a DB2 related WF (example: bind some packages). Both W...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Cert expiry on 119-12

Currently the zERT summary SMF record (type 119 subtype 12) lacks some of the certificate details that are present in the detail record (type 119 subtype 11). I propose that all details collected by the detail record be propagated into the summary...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Enhance DFSMS to check for assignment of DATACLASS values for the SCDS, ACDS, & COMMDS

This will inform administrators prior to an activation that a configuration conflict exist which may cause activation to go into allocation, effectively preventing activation from proceeding. Worse case could be a difficult to recover CDS file.
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Provide TLS_NEGKEYSHARE data for TLSV1.2 protocol in zERT Type 119 Subtype 12 Reporting

We would like to see the TLS_NEGKEYSHARE column in zERT Reporting contain the data which will reflect which elliptical curve is in use. The SMF 119 layout has the field below: 40(X'28') SMF119SS_TLS_Neg_Key_Share 2 Binary Negotiated key share:...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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