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JES2 - no automatic Reconfiguration driven after Site Outage

After a planned SITE1 outage we saw that JES2 Reconfiguration was started driven by member "x", but just a few seconds later member "x" was QUIESCED as it was running in SITE1. Because of that we see that member "Y" has taken over with RECONFIGURA...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to list all z/OSMF Workflow Definitions

z/OSMF Workflow Definitions must be specified when creating a Workflow instance. However the user must know the name and location of the file that contains the Workflow Definition. It would be FAR easier to use Workflows if the Workflow Editor 'ca...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Request to create a new RLS command to show the name of the data sets that are allocated inside a data cache structure.

The Itau bank opened the PMR: 28951,228,631 because we didn't find a way to know the VSAM RLS data sets that were allocated inside a data cache structure. During the pmr the only way to find the name of those data sets was to check this informatio...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 0 Future consideration

Suppression of creation of IUTSAMEH device

We would like to have the opportunity (f.e. a parameter in tcpip profile) to deactive the creation of IUTSAMEH device.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

ISPF SRCHFOR function fails to notify the user when additition hidden options are in place

When using SRCHFOR on the ISPF Command line in option 3.4, it will sometimes not find the string even though it does exist in the list. This can occur when there are other options specified that are not seen by the user unless they enter SRCHFOR (...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Please add ACME Client feature for automatic Certificate Generation

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the Z HMC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewal...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Future consideration

Allow one call to set all Connection options, and one call to setup all Request options.

Hi, Instead of your caller making several calls to set up a connection or request using HWTHSET, allow them to pass an array with all the options they want to set with one call. OR Include the connect or Request options in the HWTHREQ or HWTHCONN ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Enhance RACF so a Passticket Only UserID is possible

Please enhance RACF so that we have a new attribute of let's call it PASSTICKET or PASSTICKETONLY We use passtickets and for security reasons don't want the UserIDs to also have to have a password.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Remove / prior to 4 digit UCB Addresses on Mount Command

The z/OS Mount command syntax requires a / prior to a 4 digit UCB. The time has come to eliminate this requirement.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Not under consideration

SSH Enhancements on z/OS

We would like to request SSH enhancements in the area of Authentication and User Mapping, as well as Compatibility features for non-z/OS platforms connecting to z/OS (x509 Certificate Support).
about 6 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Not under consideration