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Preventing ICH14081I Warning Message

ICH14081I message is issued when RACF encounters a duplicate class name in the dynamic class descriptor table and the installation-defined class descriptor table (module ICHRRCDE). The class attributes in the dynamic class table override any class...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

HWTJCREN: Support unnamed root arrays in JSON parser

JSON allows for unnamed arrays as root, e.g. [] is perfectly correct. However, the Web Enablement toolkit currently rejects the request to create an unnamed array as root with HWTJ_JCREN_ENTRYVALUETYPE_INV. It should accept the request without a n...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Show the correct SCRATCH volume count in ISMF and DFSMSrmm

Today we have a problem to show the SCRATCH volume count in the ISMF panel, because it does not matched the real available scratch volume count in the IBM VTS library manager data base. The problem is the "Delete Expired Volume Data setting". Is t...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Add SNMP v3 support for BCPii to communicate with Support Element

IT Security is very very important nowadays. SNMP v3 is a state of art security standard over SNMP v2. Right now, both HMC and SE support SNMP v3 for API call. Should enhance z/OS BCPii feature to support SNMP v3 as well.
27 days ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 1 Not under consideration

Backup/Restore During zOSMF Software Update

Scenario: A user would like to apply updates to their Software Instance in Software Update on z/OSMF. Current: Right now, you can perform a corrective install, recommended install, or functional install and the environment is updated with no backu...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Dark mode for z/OSMF apps

Dark mode should be implemented in the z/OSMF apps, such as software management
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Automated SMF Collection based on PARMLIB setting or z/OSMF Settings Plugin

SMF collection on z/OS does not establish a standard HLQ or dataset naming conventions for SMF collection and history. Basically every shop has their own process of collecting SMF which involves customization of z/OS exits to capture when the data...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

Accumulative PREFIX

To monitor multiple tasks without constantly resetting PREfix. Ex. During performance tests, I want to watch CTG*, CICS*, DB2*. I would like to see those 3....and only those 3 on 1 screen. So....something like Pre CTG*. Then +PRE CICS*. Then +Pre ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Functionality already exists

Add job classes REST call to z/OSMF API

It would be useful if the z/OSMF REST API allowed you to get a list of all job classes on a system, this could be used in IDE extensions, external management tools or automating documentation.
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Adding the &DS suffix to the DYNDUMP

Using DYNDUMP, the dump is partial due to the dataspace 2GB limit. When there is a huge amount of storage to be dumped, it is not possible for a complete transaction dump to be generated to an automatically allocated dataset that does not include ...
10 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

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