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Keep history of changes when changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF, although the person who submits the updates can view information about their changes from the View Text Contents panel, others don't know what changes they have made. So we want to keep the hist...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

USS Kernel to lift MVS Wait restriction when threads need to be accessed by LE

LE CEEDUMPs fail to collect data from paused threads in a multi-threaded environment due to the use of PAUSE/RELEASE and are in an MVS Wait. We're requesting the USS Kernel remove this restriction (similar to APAR OA44116 for KernWait) so threads ...
10 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Fast Replication target volumes that have no UCB should be ignored

With FR the pool storage group(source) and the COPY POOL BACKUP storage group(target) must not contain predefined devices without UCB. Application data can grow very fast, so we use automated tasks that initialize new volumes. Unfortunatelly, when...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF create your own category on left bar

At the moment it is not possible to create your own category for your personal links on the left bar of the z/OSMF panel.You can only create a new link for a given category or create it as a "no category" button.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Not under consideration

Automatic procedure to extract the WLM Policy

We need an improvement for the WLM code to provide us a way to extract the WLM Policy without manual intervetion.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 3 Future consideration

Increase maximum length of MVS Console commands

The MVS console does not accept commands longer than 126 characters.This can be a problem when issuing long commands (such as DUMP, SLIP, or GTF commands) from CLISTs or other automation scripts. Given that this occurrence is quite frequent, we sh...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Future consideration

Disallow edit/save of PDSE generated members

Provide the ability to disallow editing the non-zero PDSE member versions.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software update - HOLD ACTIONs

Provision to save HOLD ACTIONS arising from a software update to a software instance (preferrably zone wise) to a MVS dataset.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Enable VSAM browse/view from ISPF (without additional product such as File Manager)

Browse (and perhaps view) a VSAM dataset directly from ISPF without having to install an additional product such as File Manager
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Reduce CPU consumption of IOS HyperSwap API address space for a large number of addresses

When executing a reload of the GDPS GEOPARM the IOSHSAPI ( IOS HyperSwap API address space ) consumes a lot of CPU in a short period of time when there is a high number of addresses under GDPS, causing some customer applications to slowdown and ha...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

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