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SRB enhancement to support CBU operations

Our customer activates CBU during IPL at DR site and they issue CONFIG CP ONLINE command to add reserved zIIP. They decided to exploit SRB functionality on new system to expect accelerated IPL on new system. When they tested CBU procedure on new s...
9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Planned for future release

TCP/IP profile NETACCESS with hostname

TCP/IP PROFILE NETACCESS statements can only use ipv4_addr/num_mask_bits, ipv4_addr address_mask or ipv6_addr/prefixlength to identify a network, subnetwork or host. We also would like the ability to specify a hostname that can be related to whate...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Changing "PRI/SEC/DIR BLKS" during a Deployment operation in z/OSMF Software Management

Using the CustomPac ISPF Dialogs, we previously had the ability to change the dataset allocations for PDS/ZFS datasets shipped via ServerPac to allow for local growth, removal of secondaries & increase of dir blocks. As zOS 2.5 is now shipped ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS General/Unknown 2 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

Network Configuration Assistant Install History maintenance

The configuration assistant keeps all the installation history for a stack forever. The only way to reduce the history today is to remove it entirely by copying the stack to a new entity, delete the stack and rename the new entity to the stack nam...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

a way to have ZOSMF workflow Jobs unique names

There should be a way,a variable, a symbolic, that Customer can use in their JOBCARD for Jobname,where the jobs generated from the workflow, once the jobcard information is propagated, .. each job will have the correct JOBNAME as intended by IBM.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Order/Distr/Install 2 Future consideration

Workflow editor - Possible to create jobcard .

Be able to define specific jobcard for a jcl step when create a workflow definition file in workflow editor.In the specific jobcard, to be able to use variables as well, like for other jcl.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

IEBCOPY Member Generations - Add/Merge option

With the new IEBCOPY CPYGRP GENS=ALL the REPLACE option will first delete the copy member and generations from the target and then perform the copy. That eliminates the member and generations in the target which is counter intuitive considering th...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Planned for future release

SMS SCDS construct comparison tool

With the heavy focus on cyber resiliency, we are looking for a tool to compare SMS constructs between SCDSs--or between the active configuration and a new SCDS. We have excellent testing tools for ACS source code (with test cases and NaviQuest), b...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 5 Future consideration

EDIT-Profile resets CAPS OFF/NUMBER OFF even if PROFILE is LOCKed

ISPF EditorWhen opening an existing Member, LOCKed Profiles with CAPS OFF are temporary changed to CAPS ON if there are no lowercase Characters in file.The same is for NUMBER OFF, it is temporary changed to NUMBER ON STD when Number in the rightmo...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

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