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Underlying reason for save failure is written to the log but not displayed to the user

When saving a file/member for a workflow step (such as saving JCL for a workflow step), the underlying error is hidden from the user. The user must go to IZUG0.log to find the underlying reason. It would be good if the error dialog presented to th...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

OMVS Shell Logging to SYSLOGD

IBM should provide the ability to log messages to the active OMVS/USS syslogd. Currently logger, which is standard in UNIX for writing messages to syslogd, does not have this ability in z/OS but writes messages to the z/OS SYSLOG without an option...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

CP directory statements USER and IDENTITY should allow at least 12 character passwords

In case of z/VM a recovery, where RACF is uninitialized or unresponsive, RACF defers the LOGON authorisation decision to z/VM. Which means that an 8 character CP directory password is used to logon to z/VM. These passwords are expected to be saved...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Add BWO when performing dataset level flashcopy of an open VSAM dataset.

Please see PMR 23957,442,000.This request is needed to address a problem introduced when migrating our DFDSS logical backups from Concurrent Copy to FlashCopy (Using DFDSS FASTREPLICATION). At times when a dataset flashcopy is taken and we later a...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Future consideration

Query Tapes Details update

Huge HW configurations (or not) impose to be accurate on all the installed materials. IODF or HMC have in most cases a very restricted access. Quick access to configuration informations by a Query could make the control, verifications, and other t...
about 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Support Control Passthru for Up, Down, RFind and RChange

With z/OS 2.2 the ability to passthru Left and Right was provided using the CONTROL PASSTHRU service. This should be extended to support Up, Down, RFind and RChange.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Improve EDIT Macro Compare return code

The current ISPF Edit compare macro command does not provide a meaningful return code.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Zap a cloned zFS file with the correct audit-file id (auditfid) when it is created

Various auditing routines use the zFS supposedly-unique "file id" as opposed to the filesystem names, and have an issue when one or more datasets in the same shared-filesystem plex are using the same file id. DFDSS is IBM's poster-child for manipu...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

We would like job specific tape mount information to review elongated tape mounts

We have BVIR records where elongated tapes mounts have been identified but we need to identify which jobs were impacted. This information would be ideal to have stored in any of the job based SMF records (21s/30s/14s/15s). This information would b...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Support for (resolvable) variable to be transferred to Called Workflow

Within a Callable Step, the option exists to "Transfer variable values from this workflow to the called workflow". Currently, only variables labels that already have been established in a earlier step are able to be passed over to the called workf...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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