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CSSMTP sender address for undeliverable error reports

When using CSSMTP parameter >ReturnToMailFrom Yes< in Configuration Statement >Undeliverable<, CSSMTP creates an error report mail for the sender of an undeliverable mail. The sender address of the error report mail is created by CSSMT...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance zHMC to add SYSLOG entries for FCP/FICON error conditions

The zHMC appliance contains valuable information about the health of Mainframe Fiber Channel (FICON) connections. This information could be used for alerting and troubleshooting but its proprietary and can only be assessed interactively from the H...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer allow cancellation

When having a big list of datasets being imported, it is not possible to cancel/stop a task. The only way to stop a task is to restart the full zOSMF instance which is very bad as other services rely on zOSMF. A full Server restart just because th...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Provide option for dubbed processes to inherit environment from init process

Please provide options - a global default in BPXPRMxx and user level option in user's OMVS segment for a "blind dubbed" process to inherit its environment from the "init" process (PID 1). Currently, an address space that is not started by USS Logo...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

bpxwmigf working with ZFSs (VSAM) as name ends with .D (not .DATA)

Nós temos milhares de ZFSs para serem migrados/redefinidos porém este utilitário possui uma limitação no tratamento dos nomes dos ZFSs. Ele obrigatoriamente espera que os nomes terminem com '.DATA' porém nossos ZFSs possuem nomes próximos de 44 ca...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Ability to remove or decrease the Passphrase Complexity for RACF

This would give the ability for Single Sign On which could utilize the Active Directory (Windows) as the PRA (Password Rules Authority) and create policies to control password complexity from AD. Currently RACF requires that we utilize a minimum o...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

zCX - Enable WLM to manage containers running within a single zCX STC

When running a zCX address space hosting many application containers in it, it shall be possible to manage the workload with WLM. Otherwise I cannot benefit from hosting many applications within once zCX address space.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

DFDSS to define new target GDG base and use relative generations for target GDS's.

DFDSS has the ability to process input Generation Data Sets via relative generation numbers, but cannot create new target generations using the relative generation (+n). It also cannot define target GDG's as part of a COPY or RESTORE operation.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Future consideration

List uncatalogued PDS members with Z/OSMF API

Being able to list uncatalogued PDS members from the Z/OSMF API would be extremely helpful for the development of software for automating z/OS OS upgrades on our systems as well of lots of other tests and validations that we need to do. Currently ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF WLM View Access for staff members who can't update WLM

Please update z/OSMF to allow users who are not allowed to update WLM access to view WLM.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration