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Take advantage of DAE to suppress dumps

We encountered a situation where the zFS address space was taking 2C3 abends. The abend would sometimes occur more than once a day. DAE was not suppressing the dumps. Coding of the SDUMPX macro should be changed to take advantage of letting DAE su...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Management ability to hide Software Instances

Within z/OSMF's Software Management plugin, we need the ability to hide or separate the viewing of the different Software Instances to secure sensitive information and also ease of use.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF Workload Management - limited interaction within sysplex boundaries

Workload Management task interactions with sysplex are limited to the sysplex in which the z/OSMF host system is a member. It would be helpful if the Workload Management info could be updated, installed and activated across all sysplex's from a ce...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF: Add ability to restore an archived workflow

It would be nice to be able to restore an archived workflow.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance zERT to Notify User that an Import is Complete.

Currently, one has to keep clicking refresh on one of the screens until it shows it's been fully imported.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance the Network Analyzer by providing the ability to cancel long-running import process

There is no external ability to manually free a hung data set by cancelling the operation if there is a long-running import
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Loss of packet after VIPAROUTE implementation

Customer implemented VIPAROUTE and, when any target gets recicled, RTOP destination cache sets the smallest MTU among viable routes to the destination, causing the GRE headers exceeds the MTU size causing loss of packets between the distributor an...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Remove 1000 REST request restriction for one zosmf TSO adress space

ZOSMF starts a TSO Adress space to handle rest requests. In CEA there is a session reuse setting. But even if this session reuse settings have highest values there is another hardcoded limitationOne TSO AS can handle only 1000 requests. So this ma...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zERT Manage Database

Under zERT Manage Database, provide additional pruning operation abilities based upon an import label number identifier, and / or the System or LPAR name. This will be in addition to the current Prune Database options available.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Simple nested JSON index navigating

It would be nice to locate an entry nested within JSON by passing a string qualifying steps to get to it. For example for JSON: {"name": "My Object", "history":[ {"type":"Edit", "user":{"uid":123, "name":"Steve"}, "time":"2023-09-22T08:25:43.5...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

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