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Provide a Wizard in ISMF Panels to create the necessary details to set up OAM

It would be helpful if ISMF had a WIZARD function to help generate the details needed to setup OAM. OAM requires SMS (ACS code and Constructs), DB2 Tables, and OAM CBROAMxx Parmlim, IGDSMSxx parmlib to be set up. A Wizard could provide the structu...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 2 Not under consideration

DFSMSdfp - Multi volume PDSE

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR062910266User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS09008Title: DFSMSdfp - Multi volume PDSESubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSSFPOC: Elmer E La...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Future consideration

STP setting and customization

With customers moving to zCloud, we are now combining customers with z/VM lpars set in different timezones onto a single processor. There needs to be a better method of utilizing STP, to alleviate unnecessary manual updates to the System Config fi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Server Time Protocol (STP) 1 Not under consideration

retrieve last line command from ISPF DSLIST

Sometimes I issue a long TSO command as a line command on ISPF DSLIST. And then I would like to issue a variation of the command. I would like to issue a line command to retrieve, but not execute the previous line command. As a retrieve line comma...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

ChaCha20-Poly1305 for IBM Z and LinuxONE

Requesting system hardware support particularly in IBM Crypto Express features (but also in CP Assist for Cryptographic Processing, and in operating system and middleware exploiters such as z/OS System SSL) for the ChaCha stream cipher (at least t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 4 Future consideration

JSON parser

JSON parser toolkit does not allow the creation of an array as the root object which is a valid JSON construct. It is possible to create a root array object by parsing "[]" but the create service does not allow additional objects to be added to a ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 3 Future consideration

Add <refresh> option in Manage PCI System Services panel

The Manage PCI System Services panel doesn't have a refresh option, so when we configure the CHP of/on to z/OS, the status is not updated, we need to cancel out of the panel and go back in. It would save time if a <refresh> option were provi...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Provide clickable fields on the System Information Query Additional Actions panel

On the System Information Query Additional Actions panel, there are several different panels/tasks referenced. It would be helpful if these were hyperlinks, so the user could just click on those links instead of clicking on <OK>, then locati...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic STEPLIB for DSNREXX

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0518043127User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSOSXD04011Title: Dynamic STEPLIB for DSNREXXSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : GSE UGPROJ : GSEFPOC: William Yu...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

REXX: Provide SORTSTEM Functionality in

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0930086343User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSREXX08003Title: REXX: Provide SORTSTEM Functionality in z/OS REXX EnvironmentsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

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