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When using dsfs in a PDS the ls -al should display ISPF statistics or other info

When using ISPF the member display panel will display either ISPF statistics (if available) or load module information. The ls -al command when using /dsfs should present similar information when it is available. Since dsfs supports ISPF statistic...
9 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 4 Future consideration

Define KEYRING_OWNER in PARMLIB instead of local_override.cfg

If you use a shared KeyRing (one certificate for all services on one LPAR) you have currently to alter /global/zosmf/configuration/local_override.cfg inserting a line "KEYRING_OWNER_USERID=certOwnerID"The KEYRING_NAME is configured in IZUPRM00.Thi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

z/OSMF can generate and validate JWTs, but the JWTs are only valid with z/OSMF itself. If z/OSMF could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Need to see zCX information from SDSF (requires API)

Sysprogs need to see information about zCX address spaces from SDSF. This requires an API, so SDSF and other products can extract information. Information requested (provide information from the zCX joblog when zCX initializes - i.e. zCX type, ver...
5 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Ways needed to change single options of IEAOPT

We need a way to set single options out of the scope of IEAOPTxx member without overwriting all the other options. There should either be a command "SETOPT option=value" that only changes the specified option. Or "SET OPT=xx" should only change th...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Future consideration

ADRDSSU Dump: should not ignore migrated Dataset, at least give warning message for Migrated Dataset not included in DUMP

Hello Team,Our monthly maintenance process is lot dependent on ADRDSSU utility, where we take DUMP of target to Runtime and Runtime DUMP from one lpar to another using ADRDSSU. Last two months due to some SMS change some of our target libraries go...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Future consideration

JES2 PERFDATA should be written as SMF records for improved usability

JES2 currently provides the results of collected performance statistics in the output of the $D PERFDATA command in many lines of $HASP660 sent to the console and consumable via review of syslog/operlog. The command provides several subscripts, $D...
7 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Use of a filtlist in the exclude statement

We would like to be able to use a filltlist in the exclude statement of another filllist. Often we have a long list of datasets that are allocated with custom constructs. So that the general filtlist does not unintentionally take effect, we also e...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Future consideration

hide out IBM default FTPS and HTTPS servers in z/OSMF 'FTP Servers' plugin

Hello,it is not possible to delete or hide the list of IBM standard FTP Servers (e.g. for z/OSMF Incident Log plugin usage). The option for 'Remove' is greyed out for these IBM default FTP servers. I would prefer a 'Hide' option here to be able to...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Improve availability of Z/OS WLM application Environment in Sysplex with DB2 Data sharing

There is a design issue with the Z/OS WLM application Environment for Data sharing Systems. In Data Sharing Environment we noticed that WLM abend on one LPAR resulted in Sysplex wide Impact. The basic principle of Data Sharing is high availability...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Future consideration

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