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Possibility to choose the systems to make the XCF Rebuild Copy Process

We think it is important to have the option to choose the systems that will do the system managed rebuild of CF structures by defining a preference list, for example.We had a case where we verified that the system that was doing the copy was a GDP...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Unable to delete member in PDSE 100% utilized

See: PMR
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

Integration of CHPID-Mapping-Tool-Logic into HCD

Today: IBM Z hardware configuration process is extremely clumsy, complex, error prone and time intensive. In addition the user needs to work with several non-integrated tools. This causes unnecessary effort in regular configuration tasks and adds ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / HCD 5 Future consideration

Managing multiple CPM instances across multiple CECs & plexes

Allow CPM instances to communicate with each other to ensure only one instance per CEC is in Autonomic mode to remove the possibility of multiple instances from trying to activate capacity on the same CEC. Also, if the LPAR that is running the CPM...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

JES2 policy editor

JES2 policy is a new feature in z/OS 2.4 that allows system programmer to create JES2 job preprocessing and post processing other than using exits. However, JES2 policy is in form of JSON. It would be more user friendly to design the JES2 policy w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Support for YYYY/MM/DD format in REXX DATE() function

Can a new option be added to the REXX DATE() function that returns a date in YYYY/MM/DD format, as required by LMMSTATS CREATED4 format? Maybe DATE('S/')?
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Future consideration

Requirement to support HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF

We are trying to access z/OSMF over an Apache HTTPD proxy, unfortunately the proxy does not allow us to forward the client authentication certificate. The authentication is done on the proxy and then the proxy forwards the HTTP header-based authen...
12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Setting the FCTOPPRCPRIMARY option default

In a DFSMSdss copy process, using the default for FASTREPLICATION(PREF), copy is processed not using FC. Message : IGD17279I 1 VOLUMES WERE REJECTED BECAUSE OFPPRC PRIM CURRENTLY ACTIVEANTRQST QFRVOLS VOLUME RSN(2) The only way to resolve this is ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

ISMF Last Date/Time Modified field updated incorrectly

Although SMS SCDS does not contain any Scratch Threshold values, the Last Date/Time Modified field is updated when changing a Scratch Threshold value. My customer claims that the Last Date/Time Modified field shouldn't be updated if the SMS SCDS i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

ISPF SuperC compare / ISREDIT COMPARE support for modify process options in REXX/TSO.

Customer: Claus Bjoerno, Bankdata under JN Data.---------------------------- We're currently having an issue with the internal ISPF SuperC compare, using this statement in a REXX under TSO: "ISREDIT COMPARE SESSION SAVE SYSIN" It seems that this c...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration