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design requirement to have DFSMSdss check the status of the GDS once the COPY is completed

Design requirement to have DFSMSdss check the status of the GDS once the COPY is completed to ensure that the status has not changed from the status it had prior to the target being allocated. Since the DFSMSdss stop started after the GDS was crea...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Delete elements like channel , control-unit , unit in IODF with HCD batch

With PGM=CBDMGHCP,PARM='MIGR,........' we can add or update elements but not to delete elements. It would be fine to be able to delete elements in batch before to do MIGRATE in batch. We have messages : CBDA563I SPACE EXHAUSTED IN WORK IODF NSYSTK...
3 months ago in z/OS / HCD 4 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Deployment - Add workflows

Unable to add customer specific "workflow" in a software deployment.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Have one (instead of multiple) syntax rules for DEVSUPxx

The +-30 statements in DEVSUP are parsed using multiple (at least 2) sets of rules. e.g. some statements are limited to 4 blanks around the equal sign, while others have no limit. The Initialisation and Tuning Reference specifically says blanks ar...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 0 Under review

AI-Powered WLM - New feature: WLM Service class

Every working day, during the first 5-10 minutes of our main EOD processing (batch), the WLM service classes of online transactions have very bad Performance Index (>4). We would like a similar feature to the new AI-Powered Initiators to protec...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / AI Framework 1 Needs more information

Add a RACDCERT REST API to z/OSMF

It would be useful if we could get an API to manage digital certificates or at the minimum get a list of keyrings and certificates on the system. A RACDCERT API could be used for external management tools and to make utilities that give notificati...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

need CEEOPT64 for amode64 environments

allow applications that have amode31 and amode64 environments to be able to read options specific to their environment. For example existing CEEOPTS be used by amode24/31 applications and CEEOPT64 be processed by amode64 environment
12 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

zOSMF - NCA allow to delete default 'Security Levels'

Since a recent upgrade the NCA introduced the capability to delete or add all the default rules which is an appreciated feature. Whereas this idea focuses on the extension of the same functionality to the 'Security Levels'. As we only operate on c...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

could we have AOPBATCH part of the z/OS and not dependant of having InforPrint Server ?

AOPBATCH is better than BPXBATCH
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

RMF Above the bar storage

When you have multiple input files for Post Processor reports that span many intervals, you may reach your above the line user region limit and get an 0C4 without a clue of that could have happened. This forces you to break one Post Processor job ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

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