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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

Restore a non SMS extended addressable LDS to an SMS managed Volume

Per error message in the log: Issue :0ADR971E (001)-FDSRL(04), LOGICAL RESTORE FOR CLUSTER ISV.JAVA.V11.OMVS.JAVAROOT IN CATALOG ICFCAT.SHR.ISV FAILED, 8 Error: The source data set is a NONSMS extended addressable VSAM LDS and the target data set ...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

RHEL9 support: mgmt node

RHEL9 support including mgmt node and compute node
5 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...
about 1 year 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

Ability for BINDER to tag ALIAS zfs files

It would be useful if it was possible for the BINDER to be able to tag the zFS file that has been created during its processing (chtag). If ALIAS is specified and points to a zFS location an untagged file will be created. Since the binder only pro...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

add both compression and encryption support for OAM.

This is so the statement, Pervasive Encryption, is true. Not sure why this was missed in the first place, OAM must support compression and encryption so data can be protected.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration