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Provide a method/utility to validate Group Associations in a load library between modules and aliases.

In order to proactively prevent incidents during production operations, the ability to proactively scan and validate the load module/alias relationships would be a huge improvement over the current situation. Currently, correcting this error is on...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Not under consideration

Provide an override for message IGW01559E when using COPYGROUP to copy an Executable module and it's Alias into a target load library.

In certain circumstance when copying an executable module and its alias into an existing load module with the Replace modifier, error message IGW01559E is issued. However, the situation described by the error message does not apply. The Alias bein...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future 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...
almost 11 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 ...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

CRYPTO APVIRT in PROFILE needs to be overridden in USER by a CRYPTO DOMAIN APDED

It makes directory maintenance easier when handling a large LINUX server environment (or any that would use CRYPTO)
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Add mount option to perform ZFS file system integrity check at mount time

When coming up for the first time in DR, we have a request from one of our teams to be able to run a file system integrity check to look for any ZFS corruption.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF workflow granularity for DELETE

It used to be that only the owner of a workflow could delete it. Now it is anyone who has access to <saf-prefix>.ZOSMF.WORKFLOW.ADMIN Recommend that perhaps by making the workflow Restricted or Private also means that it cannot be deleted ex...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future 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...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Avoid a user who needs to restart an lpar from operating on the CPC

If a user who has to do actions against some LPAR objects (as "Load", "Activate" or "Deactivate") has access to object "CPC" can do any of this actions against the whole CPC.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Provide more job details in the step status panel of workflows in z/OSMF.

System: z/OSMF WorkflowActor: Provide more job details in the step status panel of workflows in z/OSMF. We are planning to use Z/OSMF for Workflow automation/orchestration to replace our Consistently repeatable processes which have multiple steps ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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