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Add LDAP configuration file option to customize activity log date format.

Activity log activity is written in the format Day Month Date Time Year as seen below: Thu Jan 11 12:49:26 2024 total operations started = 0 Thu Jan 11 12:49:26 2024 total operations completed = 0 Thu Jan 11 12:49:26 2024 total binds completed = 0...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Structure CP ESM interface as CP exits instead of building into CP

Implementing a ESM has historically always required rebuilding CP, a daunting task for newbies. Restructuring the CP ESM interface as CP exits would allow adding or disabling an ESM to not require a rebuild or CP IPL.
about 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Instruction-execution-protection support should be provided for CPOOLs and IARCP64 and IARST64.

For the same reasons support is available in IARV64 and STORAGE OBTAIN/RELEASE: System integrity
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 0 Future consideration

Make the use of base64-password encoding in z/OSMF workflow REST-API step type optional (or remove it)

Currently, in the REST-API step type of a z/OSMF workflow, you can only provide a password for authentification to a REST-API when the password is base64-encoded. This is a bit bulky, for example when using this step with variables for substitutio...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

SA JES2 SPOOL monitor to detect unusual growth

In normal operation, JES2 spool can fill up and notification is received when we hit the JES2 warning level. The warning level we currently have set is 80% and we have SPOOLSHORT commands in-place to reduce this. However, what we do not have is vi...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

DFSMShsm FRRECOV enhancement to control FC relationship after FC background copy completion

With the current behavior of the FRRECOV CP(nn) processing in DS8K incremental FlashCopy environment, the FC relationship is withdrawn after FC background copy (BGC) completion. Therefore full volume copy is needed on next FRBACKUP CP(nn) incremen...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Copy and Paste Functionality of the output within z/OSMF should be in a readable format

When our Operations Team forward an Incident/Problem ticket to the second level support or any other team for further analysis, they put their findings, i.e. copy the required details and paste it in the ticket, so that second level support does n...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow for no accounting information in z/OSMF

Hello, We are requesting for it to be possible to use z/OSMF functions (e.g. rest api's) without the need to define accounting info.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Controlling Output Class Usage with SAF Resources

We want to control output class usage by granting access based on submitter or owner profile's through the definition of SAF Facility class profiles. Job submit should end with a SEC error.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

New LE callable service to extract active run time options

LE should create a callable service which an application could call to extract the active run time options. This would allow applications to build their own command their customers could invoke to display what is being used.
6 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration