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z/OSMF to show local LPAR name explicitly

Need z/OSMF to explicitly display Local LPAR name on all z/OSMF panels, such as not having to look to the URL to determine what system we are working with.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

r_admin source unknown in SMF records

Add requester job name to RACF records for r_admin requests
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Missing syslog messages for important configuration changes on the HMC

There are currently no logs for when the syslog forwarding configuration is changed, nor when changes are made to the SSL/TLS certificates used by the HMC for connections to other servers, such as remote syslog server. We need this feature to effe...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

Improvements to the ability to ascertain whether zFS filesystems are in migration

There is currently no way to check whether filesystems are in mirroring complete status but waiting for a swap operation to complete other than using the bpxwmigf command. I'd also like a new reason code issued when the user attempts to manually m...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

Allow multiple Jobnames per rule in AT-TLS Policy. Mask won't work for jobs like J363100, J491001. J* will pull in all jobs.

1. A bank has provided 3 different client server certificates in addition to the usual server certificates. 2. Different applications FTP to the bank from a z/OS Lpar using a batch JCL. Mainframe is the client. 3. For each of the FTP job, we need ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF REST API steps should allow multiple return codes as "expected"

zOSMF workflows will not be 100% complete when there is a Failed step. A workflow becoming "complete" is very important when using callable workflows. Values generated for instance variables in the called workflow will not be updated in the callin...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide method to determine how many drawers are installed in a z16 CEC. (Or future CECs)

We use BCPii interfaces to create dashboard concerning our CEC environments. It would be nice to have all data concerning a CEC be accessible. In particular we would like to be able to tell how many drawers are in a CEC. (MAXxx type info).
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Future consideration

SOCKS Configuration - Limitation

We have a problem with the SOCKS configuration in Mainframe that dont allow the use of DNS on the FTP server destination and only allow the use of IP Address. My concern here is that the network department setup rules on the SOCKS Server (the one ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Increase TAPEVOL facility class limit to 50k

Current TAPEVOL facility class used by HSM tapes is limited to 10k and we can have 10 suffixes if following volser ranges as numbers. Currently on my system, we have breached this limit and working on moving from TAPEVOL to DATASET facility class....
11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Smarter HMC

Using the z Series Hardware Management Console is a manual process to define, configure, disable, enable and IPL logical partitions. As the coupling facility control code is not shut down like an LPAR containing e.g. z/OS it could happen that the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

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