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Improve actions in cloud provisioning template

I want to display more information when user invokes an action on software service instance before user click OK button to proceed. (see screenshot below) 1) currently <instructions> tag and <workflow> tag cannot be together under <...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF RESTful API for initial dump analysis feature

Dear, Our customer ICBC learned that we've delivered the initial dump analysis feature in z/OSMF incident log plugin. Then they request us to provide one RESTful API for this feature. Thanks!
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OS OMPROUTE OSPF support for LSA type 7

Some sort of support required for LSA type 7 when dealing with Cisco ACI fabric networking. Our OSPF implementation with VIPA allows our systems to move between sites seamlessly but with the new ACI fabric we can't define every host as "totally st...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

FTP server dynamic allocation of new datasets

FTP Server always dynamically allocates MVS datasets with DISP=(NEW,CATLG,CATLG) and this behavior cannot be modified. Can a design change be made to optionally allow the modification of the DISP parameter when allocating new datasets (in particul...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

IMS List Structure requires Asynchronous Duplexing functionality

It is planned to have the Asynchronous duplexing functionality available soon but only for lock Structures. It would be really useful for us to include in the roadmap the IMS List structure (logger structure and message structure).
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 5 Future consideration

HealthCheck IBMUSS,USS_CLIENT_MOUNTS with NFS unusable

In our environment the health check displays permanently NFS errors which are in our customisation nomal. Everything is working fine, but the HealthCheck is generally unusable with these NFS CLIENT=Y errors. Problem is not solvable thru a change i...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

Provide UNIX dirfd() functionality on z/OS for portability

dirfd - extract the file descriptor used by a DIR streamJustification: For purposes of porting code from other UNIX platforms to z/OS support for the OpenGroup defined dirfd() function should be provided so that a directory can be assigned a file ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

z/OS USS DYNACT reset SERV_LINKLIB/LPALIB values back to default

I accidentally set USS SERV_LPALIB to something. Want to reset it back to the default, in my case - NULLS or NONE. There is no way to do it (discussed with John Shebey + John Helmbold).
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

UNIX System Services does not recognize a sysplex-aware filesystem

When a zFS filesystem is dynamically changed from non-sysplex aware to sysplex aware, USS does not recognize the filesystem as being sysplex aware. This can cause confusion as to whether the filesystem is indeed sysplex aware or not. Healthchecker...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 5 Future consideration

CSSMTP

Would like Cssmtp to release smtp config file after it is done reading the file.
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 5 Not under consideration