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Ability to add/delete/change a choice dynamically to list of choices for a Workflow variable

In my workflow I have a REST step to get a list of some specific datasets. In this step it would be nice to be able to work with a choices list for any workflow variable.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Eliminate IOS071I IDLE WITH WORK Q'D on MSCH

System: z/OSActor: User wants to eliminate the worrisome message IOS071I This customer regularly runs ICKDSF PPRCOPY SUSPEND batch job to suspend lots of dasd PPRC volumes. During this job is running, they often observe IOS071I IDLE WITH WORK QUEU...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 3 Not under consideration

Float point data editting and conversion in DFSORT

It would be great value-add feature if DFSORT supports float point data editting and conversion in future version/release. It's been mentioned in PMR 41300,057,649 that there is a DCR MR0304147529. I'd like to re-submit this request here for my ow...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 3 Not under consideration

DFSMSdss - Stand-Alone Restore & MSS1

Background - We learned from a previous PMR (09180,070,724) that an IPL of Stand-Alone Dump on a z196 from a MSS1 DASD volume doesn't currently work. We've also discovered that DFSMSdss Stand-Alone Restore IPL from a DASD volume in MSS1 suffers th...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

resolver cache

Allow resolver cache to be queried before hosts tables.Current options:LOOKUP DNS LOCAL:cache, then NSINTERADDR server, then local hosts tables.LOOKUP LOCAL DNS:local hosts tables, then cache, then NSINTERADDR server. Desired new option:LOOKUP CAC...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

JES2 - Job requeuing jobs to avoid Dataset contention fails

When a batch job is holding a dataset, if another batch job requires the dataset exclusively - the second batch job fails and then requires a manual intervention to resubmit the job when the resource become free
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

syslogd should include severity in logs files.

The syslogd has very limited output capabilities and is restricted on what is written to file. Currently the Severity is not available. At a minimum, we would like to see the severity be written to file instead of just used as a filter option. Ide...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add the system name to the telnet linemode header 'MVS TCP/IP TELNET CS V.R..'

Reason: IBM support reported following error message when doing ONTOP (remote access support) to our system: MVS TCP/IP TELNET CS V1R13Cannot load translate table .TELNET.TCPXLBIN : Error opening or reading data se t (8600) Cannot load translate t...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Always write a message when a Sysplex Distributed VIPA gets created

Currently a message is written if an Application Instance VIPA address gets created (EZD1205I...).At the moment only takeover messages are written for SDVIPAs (EZZ8302I '...TAKEN' & EZZ8303I '...GIVEN').A similar message should be written if a...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

IP host name in TTLS rule for Policy Agent

In TTLS Rule one may state IP addresses as policy critera, for example RemoteAddrGroupRef to provide a set of IP addresses. IP address of IP service might change without prior notice. Therefore it seems desirable to optionally specify an IP name i...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration