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Add GEN as an option to LMMDISP

Add the GEN option which EDIT service has, to LMMDISP service too.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

ISPF SuperC compare / ISREDIT COMPARE support for modify process options in REXX/TSO.

Customer: Claus Bjoerno, Bankdata under JN Data.---------------------------- We're currently having an issue with the internal ISPF SuperC compare, using this statement in a REXX under TSO: "ISREDIT COMPARE SESSION SAVE SYSIN" It seems that this c...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

DFSMSsms ACS provide &OLDNAME variable during ACSENVIR=RENAME in MGMTCLAS

During SMS &ACSENVIR='RENAME' processing there is currently no ability in the MGMTCLAS routine to check what the original dataset name is, you only have the newname in the &DSN variable. This means that inappropriate renames cannot be prev...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Not under consideration

Improve the copy services tasks management of ANTMAIN to avoid some tasks interfere with other tasks

During the implementation of TCT (transparent cloud tiering) with HSM and DS8K my customer caused an incident that stopped all jobs using ADRDSSU to complete and to be cancelled. The current maxtask value (42) of ANTMAIN was reached because the mi...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

Check pending structures and perform structures' rebuild more easily when activating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When activating a new CFRM policy, sometimes the change remains pending if CF resources are allocated for the structures being modified. Reallocate or structure rebuild is needed in order for the pending policy change to take effect. However, with...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

JES2 policy editor

JES2 policy is a new feature in z/OS 2.4 that allows system programmer to create JES2 job preprocessing and post processing other than using exits. However, JES2 policy is in form of JSON. It would be more user friendly to design the JES2 policy w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Improve performance of ISPF LMDLIST Service

We have multiple applications that make use of the ISPF LMDLIST service with STATS(YES) to obtain a list of datasets and their attributes. The dataset list can contain numerous entries that has been observed exceeding 32,000 at times. Current LMDL...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Deployment - Add new datasets to deployments

Unable to add customer specific "datasets" to a deployment
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF RESTful APIs for RACF management

Dear, Our customer ICBC is trying to use z/OSMF to implement RACF management such as password reset, user resume and so on. But now z/OSMF didn't provide any API to implement it. We open this RFE in order to request z/OSMF to provide RESTful API t...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF - enable JCL edit for software deployment jobs

software management under zOSMF allows for deployment of products to target systems. The tooling builds a set of batch jobs which can then be executed to deploy the software. The tooling builds the batch jobs in a set way and although it may work ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

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