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Improve ability to migrate automation following system upgrade

Many folks need to do things that require running commands through MAINTxxx. System upgrades end up losing modifications made to allow those. This would simplify maintaining those needs during and upgrade.
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

print HOLDDATA for SMP/E RESTORE Command

It should be helpful, if you print the HOLDDATA on the SMP/E RESTORE Command.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Implement an autostart feature for workflows so that instantiating a workflow with an auto-enabled step automatically starts the workflow too

Currently, The POST /zosmf/workflow/rest/{version}/workflows endpoint will only create a workflow instance. A separate call to the PUT /zosmf/workflow/rest/{version}/workflows/{workflowKey}/operations/start endpoint needs to be made in order to st...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Write IEFC001I and IEFC002I information to SMF

Description: At the point where IEFC001I and IEFC002I messages are produced, also write this information to SMF. The record should indicate if it was a cataloged procedure (the IEFC001I infomation) or an INCLUDE group, the member used, whether i...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Future consideration

DFRMM : TSO CMD for large number of tapes

Last year I had update more then 150.000 volumes to set HOLD=YES.I could do this only with the TSO RMM Command CV [volid] HOLD.It was very slowly (50.000. volumes in 1h40min :-( ) I think it will be nice if we have a TSO RMM Command with the optio...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

Enhance "Coordinated Graphical Views for Systems Panel" in z/OSMF V2R1 SPE3+

In the August 29 "System z Mainframe Simplification" workgroup call the "Coordinated Graphical Views for Systems Panel" was presented. By now the view is only a collection of CECs and LPARs including their detail information. There are many more a...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 44 Future consideration

remote console access /zVM

remote console access to the end user in IaaS provider use case when there is any issue for them to connect to the VM in regular ways.
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Request to add more flexibility to PDSE Member Generations

This is an enhancement suggestion for the next version of PDSE libraries. With PDSE V2, you can retain multiple generations of members. This feature may have been added to close one of the remaining PDSE functionality gaps compared to regular PDS ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 3 Future consideration

provide a way to list data sets in the order they appear on the volume using IEHLIST

Currently, IEHLIST LISTVTOC only lists the data sets on a volume in alphabetical order. We would like a way to have the data sets listed in order as they appear on the volume or the order they appear in the VTOC itself.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

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...
10 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

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