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Add job submitter information to SMF Type 26 record (Purge)

(this may be a duplicate - I thought I submitted this but cannot find it)Currently the type 26 job purge record contains the user ID of the job submitter but this is not sufficient for audit purposes - because of ID propagation the ID alone does n...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Continue to GIM69207S or similar message til JAVA message text is complete

Keep issuing GIM69207S or similar message until you provide all the text of the underlying message. In this case, the rest of the java message text might only take one or two additional GIM69207S. No fancy continuation notice in the extra messages...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Remove DASDVOL call from DFDSS logical dataset dump

When running a DFDSS logcal dataset dump of a SMS managed volume, DFDSS is making an unnecessary call to the RACF DASDVOL facility class. Please review the above Service Request for the details. We are attempting to delete the DASDVOL facility cla...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Enhance z/VM RACF to have a RACF Remote Sharing Facility Feature

Please enhance z/VM RACF to have a Remote Sharing Facility like RACF for z/OS and integrate with the z/OS RACF Remote Sharing Facility network.
over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

TSO - Simplify Reconnect by providing option to reconnect or cancel instead of re-logging on

TSO reconnect is a manual process, and should be more automated by providing an option to reconnect when a reconnect situation is detected.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Use placeholder text instead of real text for field descriptions

When you've gone to create a new workflow and the workflow editor has opened, , some fields has text in them already. The text then has to be manually deleted to get rid of it (see attached screenshot bad.png). The fields "Workflow ID", "Descripti...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm CDS/Journal Mirroring support

DFSMSrmm needs to automatically resolve CDS consistency point from journal when recovering from unplanned DR event. Consistency point of the hardware produced an event to RMM where the Journal had been updated but the CDS had not. At startup today...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Create an attribute that would prevent the REVOKE of a UserID due to incorrect password attempts

Requesting the creation of an attribute that would exist on the User ID that would prevent/override the User ID from being revoked due to invalid password attempts. Any successful authentications should be allowed. Unsuccessful authentications sho...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF System Status - provide point and shoot

For System Status in z/OSMF it would be nice to have point and shoot capabilities rather than having to click on the arrow to find that there is only option (3 clicks in what could be done in 1)
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF Resource Monitoring ability to rename the metrics in the Legend area of the Dashboard Groups

It would be helpful for clarity reasons and to add more meaning to dashboards based on data being monitored to have the capability to rename the metrics in the Legends
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

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