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Inventory Export of Software Instances (Software Management) for ShopZ

Currently I have to export an inventory of SMPE/e Zone by a GIMXSID job, then download it to my workstation and then upload it into shopZ. This would be quicker if there would be a possibility to get this by html download directly from z/OSMF Soft...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

avoid WTOR ICH304D like WTOR ICH302D with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.

Following APAR OA63091 (with XFACILIT IRR.DENY.SPECIAL.USER.ADDITIONAL.PASSWORD.ATTEMPTS.APPL.appl-name.) issue of WTOR ICH302D "ICH302D REPLY Y TO ALLOW ANOTHER ATTEMPT OR N TO REVOKE USERID userid." can be avoided. I propose to extend this behav...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Provide better command and response interface for omproute

You can only get information on OMPROUTE via the modify interface on the job log. This can produce a lot of output. I want information about RIP and OSPF from TSO, without swamping syslog.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF: Allow user supplied jobcard for "Send Dianostic data" in the Incident log.

The "Define Job Settings" step in the "Send Diagnostic Data" wizard supplies a (documented) JOBCARD default: //PDWFTP JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1) /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=* This jobcard can be modified by the current user and is saved in the /usr/<%userid> d...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Need more detailed explanation about analyzing the possible causes of message IOS080I

My customer wants to use the I/O timing facility of z/OS ( MIH IOTIMING paramenter) with the option for message-only processing.The manual describes the 4 possible causes of the message IOS080I indicating that the I/O exceeded the I/O timeout inte...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Allow clients to set default processing options for DFSMSdss operations using a parmlib member

DFSMSdss should be enhanced to allow clients to set default processing options for DFSMSdss operations using a parmlib member. For example, the ADMINISTRATOR could be one of the options to support the following use case described below..BTW, quite...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF cannot reconnect after TCPIP recycle

If TCPIP is recycled, z/OSMF makes no attempt to reconnect after TCPIP resumes and, is ready. It does, however, issue messages:[WARNING ] RMI TCP Accept-0: accept loop for ServerSocket[addr=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,port=0,localport=1026] throws and...EDC51...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Ensure ASCBEJST, ASCBSRBT are cleared after last job step.

This will keep residual values from being put into SMF 30.4 and 30.5 records.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

RACF database recovery utility

In the case of primary database in error with no backup database, after restoring a copy from dump, maybe we have lost some updates. In System Programmer's Guide we can find the following text: Your database is probably back-level. To bring...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Eliminate SMF Type30 OMVS process section having all zeros

Provide a means of eliminating OMVS process sections that contain only zeros.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

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