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Create ISPF Panel (User Interface) for Web Enablement Toolkit

Create a simple ISPF Panels (User Interface) for Web toolkit JSON API's. This helps customers to play with JSON data without writing a separate program to use our api's to parse the JSON data. Example: User can just provide Sequential file as inpu...
6 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Provide option to specify time zone for all z/OSMF logs

Provide a configuration parameter to set the time zone so that the time in the IZUG0.log and many other logs are in sync with the time in many other software and SYSLOG.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Mount point and directory hierarchy verification

Just like the SYNTAXCHECK checks the syntax of BPXPRMxx, I'd like to have the ability to compare whatever there is in the BPXPRMxx in terms of mount and mount points against the root file system. A feature that checks if the mount points exist in ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Share PDSE cross sysplex

Enhancement of PDSEs to be able to be shared cross sysplex. Currently, PDSE could not be shared outside a SYSPLEX.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

Allow DFSORT to run on zIIP

Enable EXCP access method for DFSORT and allow CPU processing for DFSORT steps to run on zIIP engines.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

zERT - Simple data import

With the current import UI for zERT one must specify all possible Datasets manually. If you have many Datasets it is very cumbersome to add all of them. Allow generic naming's to import for example.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Future consideration

Consistent Read from Secondary - decision making in response to poor performance/hardware health changes

Our current understanding is that to exploit the DS8K's consistent read from secondary function, IOS currently sends some queries out at Hyperswap enable time in order to determine at the LCU boundary whether reads should be directed to the PPRC p...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

TCP/IP leaves the group EZBTCPCS with the message *EZZ9676E and It is not able to rejoin it again.

After a lack of ECSA in a member of a 4-way sysplex, TCP/IP leaves it with the message *EZZ9676E and It is not able to rejoin the XCF group again.Even when we have GLOBALCONFIG SYSPLEXMONITOR AUTOREJOIN options active and the problem that caused t...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 13 Not under consideration

Add invoked omvs command to 3.17 command results display

Under ISPF 3.17 one can, if enabled, issue OMVS commands and have the results appear in ISPF Browse or View. It would be very helpful to add to the display the full command that was issued. This is especially helpful if the results are printed/cop...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Force HSM to reconnect active request to DS8k HMC

Using TCT HSM sends migrate/ recall requests to the DS8k HMC using IP. In case there is a problem with this HMC, it's possible to reconfigure SMS with an alternate HMC, but the active tasks are still connected to the 'failed' HMC and never end. Fa...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

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