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Option to return all properties of an (archived) workflow via z/OSMF REST Api

The REST Api to get properties of an (archived) workflow returns only a subset of all existing values in the /var/zosmf/data/app /<workflow> files. Provide an additional option on the query parameter "returnData" to fetch all data. - E.g. "a...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Improve CPE option to support GDPS planned events

JPMC has invested heavily into the GDPS product and utilize the site switch capabilities to adhere to FED and Audit regulations. Today we generate $0 MES orders to support the capacity requirements.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future consideration

Initialize DLLs upon program startup

All global variable initialization should happen for all DLL's that are implicitly loaded in an application before 'main' is invoked.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

SMP CSI - Global & Target zone - Sysmods Receive/Apply - Reporting/Audit

There's multiple people who perform the receive/apply etc. processing against the SMP/E CSI's and sometime it's an ask to go back say about 3 months back to find out who received/applied the sysmod, so I thought since CSI is KSDS i could certainly...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Request for the NETSTAT TTLS Command

There are certain environmental options that are not visible within an ATTLS Group such as the number of worker threads, CELAAUTH environments, and the count of queued work elements. This causes us to have situations where we are forced to take a ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Permit zOSMF Software Deployment to initialize online target volume

zOSMF Software Deployment's "initialize target volume?" option, when opted, demands the target volume be offline. This requires manual intervention in the deployment of a software instance before and after the ICKDSF/INIT job to vary the device of...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Multiple Transcoding Options in z/OS NFS Client

Hello Support, Recently we figured out that when mounting an NFS destination from z/OS, we only have the option to use XLAT or not. However, if the mountpoint contains multiple file types (e.g. images and text) we are limited to one option only. W...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Future consideration

Add DFSMShsm RECYCLE for Cloud Objects

An enhancement to DFSMShsm RECYCLE to consolidate containers with a few objects to the "active" container or a specific container for consolidated objects. DFSMShsm creates cloud containers to store objects using the default syntax of SYSARC.<H...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Enhance command D XCF,ARMSTATUS to include RESTART_METHOD in use by ARM elements

It would be nice to have the RESTART_METHODs included in the output of display commands "D XCF,ARMSTATUS,DETAIL" and "D XCF,ARMSTATUS,EL=xxxxxxx". The only way to get that information today is by running the IXCMIAPU utility and look at the active...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

(Dynamic) Recalculation of JQE blocks when SPOOLNUM is increased to avoid increase of BERT resources.

Addition of several new spool volumes to a JES2 MAS unexpectedly increased the usage of BERT resources. In our case, this caused a critical BERT resource shortage. JES2 was last cold started in the year 1997. Therefor the calculated JQE block prob...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

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