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Extend PRINT function line range to incl

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00068438User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSJES295205Title: Extend PRINT function line range to include location markersSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / (919)572-2963FP...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

LE - Phase 3 - Full Mixed 64/31-bit Amod

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1117054415User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSLNGC0513633Title: LE - Phase 3 - Full Mixed 64/31-bit Amode SupportSubmitted By: John MontiOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : APLS UGPROJ : LNGCFPOC: Kershaw Me...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

TSO REXX - OUTTRAP to Data Stack

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0711115111User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE018465Title: TSO REXX - OUTTRAP to Data StackSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC: Wil...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Add JCTJOBID and Sysplex to SMF type 92

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1117112435User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE11035Title: Add JCTJOBID and Sysplex to SMF type 92 (zFS UNIX activity)Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : M...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Add accounting information to SMF type 9

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1117112438User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE11038Title: Add accounting information to SMF type 92 (z/OS UNIX)Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGP...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Support OBSERVER traffic in its own mess

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1205124257User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR1205124257Title: Support OBSERVER traffic in its own message class separate from CPCONIO traffic.Submitted By: Tracy Dean/Beaverton/IBMOriginators Area: z/VM Tools...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

z/VM SSI on an FBA/SCSI only system

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0920127150User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GGZVM12003Title: z/VM SSI on an FBA/SCSI only systemSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : G UGGROUP : ZVM UGPROJ :FPOC: Daniel G...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

RHEL9 support: mgmt node

RHEL9 support including mgmt node and compute node
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Define Volumes as first step in z/OSMF Serverpac Deployment

It would be helpful to provide the capability in z/OSMF, as part of a Serverpac install, to add a step that defines and builds ICKDSF JCL to initialize volume names which will be used in the Deployment Checklist step, to assign datasets to a speci...
11 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

In traditional ISPF at LOGON time, you can select a COMMAND to be executed. I noticed when I LOGON to TSO through ZOSMF, there is NOT a COMMAND field to enter. As a result, my current LOGON proc fails. Can you allow a COMMAND to be entered through ZOSMF?

It is useful because I cannot logon to TSO currently with my LOGON proc through ZOSMF. We do NOT want to have to create SPECIAL procs.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration