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z/OSMF Workflow Editor Should Support Longer Step Description

We create rich-text descriptions for our workflow steps. They look great when displayed by the z/OSMF Workflow task. Unfortunately, it is currently impossible to make minor text corrections using the workflow editor as it supports only very short ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Group Connected To Groups

Want to have one group that uses RBAC (Role Based Access control) for the purpose of access control.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

LE Load Notification User exit : Add RMODE indicator values to CEEFLG in CEELNUE csect

In the LE Load Notification User exit it would be very valuable to identify the RMODE of the program which caused the exit to be accessed. 24-bit and even 31-bit storage can be exhausted in environments with many architectural modules for IMS appl...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Operator Command for refreshing keyrings used by AT-TLS

We have over 200 certificates that we use in our different environments every day with AT-TLS. Since we require to update these certificates once a year. To keep from taking an outage we have to go into z/OSMF and update the key ring instance then...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Change variable substitution of 'location of file template' at step time instead of workflow creation time.

Variable substitution is possible for the "Location of file template" option for Step type "File Template". The actual substitution is performed at workflow creating time and can no longer be altered while the workflow is running. The variable spe...
over 5 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.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance IDCAMS error reporting - IDC3027I

We recently had a problem where the VTOC was full or near full on multiple volumes. Many batch jobs were failing when attempting to do an IDCAMS DEFINE and IDCAMS was generating the following message: IDC3027I NO SPACE IN VTOC OR VTOC INDEX The Pr...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

NFS server attribute to list or suppress migrated datasets

We would like an attribute made available to NFS that would allow us the option to either list or suppress migrated datasets, currently users listing mainframe datasets via an NFS mount are presented with not only datasets presently on disk, but a...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Future consideration

RMF Postprocessor Device Activity report filter option enhancements

In the Post Processor Device Activity report, we would like to have filter options for volsers, either as an include or exclude filter/statement.And for storage groups, we would like to have generic storage group filters like SG(PROD*) and an opti...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Add support to Encryption Facility OpenPGP for OpenPGP certificates with public keys to be stored in RACF

Support better security than keys stored in USS. We want to keep our public and private keys in our Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)/RACF. Encryption Facility provides for writing OpenPGP public keys to a USS for or to JAVA keys stores. It does ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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