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    zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - History of commands

    zOSMF SDSF Plugin does not keep a history of the commands like the '/' offers in the ISPF interface or the direct console usage via 'zOS Operator Consoles' plugin, which does support history as well.
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

    zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - Must support SYSLOG and OPERLOG

    zOSMF SDSF Plugin 'LOGS' panel only offers the 'Event Log' but neither SYSLOG nor OPERLOG is supported which is a requirement to have the same functionality in the SDSF plugin.
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

    zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - Userlog (ULOG) must support 'ULOG CLOSE'

    zOSMF SDSF Plugin Userlog (ULOG) must support 'ULOG CLOSE' to have the same functionality as the ISPF interface.
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

    zOSMF - SDSF Plugin - Userlog (ULOG) must adjust to max screen size

    zOSMF SDSF Plugin Userlog (ULOG) must adjust to the max screen size of the browser. See attached screen print the waste of space when not scaling to the max.
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

    More Granular RACF Dataset member level access SAF checking

    We have a PDS dataset where several application encrypted password files are housed. Splitting the contents of this PDS is not easily achievable. Can RACF architecture allow for an enhancement feature that performs dataset access SAF checks at the...
    4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Not under consideration

    Port the dnf package manager with RPM-based distributions for open-source software to z/OS

    dnf is a package manager that simplifies software management on RPM-based distributions. Its commands for installing, updating, searching, and removing packages, along with the ability to manage repositories, make it a valuable tool for system adm...
    2 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

    Flexibility to allow different actions by CPM in response to the sharpness of the spike in capacity demand

    The current CPM policy only allow a single action when the CPC CPU utilization has gone above the monitoring threshold. There is no ability to allow CPM to add different amount of capacity in response to the sharpness of the spike in the capacity ...
    10 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

    When generating an RPTEXT report in DFRMM, tapes may appear twice due to simultaneous delete and insert operations on the Control Dataset (CDS), and a design change is proposed to ensure consistent data

    We are creating an RPTEXT report in DFRMM. It can happen that a tape is listed twice in the report output if the tape previously had the status "scratch" and is now being written by a batch job during the report generation. According to informatio...
    10 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

    Add an error message to the chown command if user is lacking a uid or OMVS segment

    You can't set a user as owner of a z/OS Unix file with chown if they don't have a UID in their OMVS segment, yet the command gives no feedback if this occurs, this means you can think you set someone as owner without actually being able to do it a...
    6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Under review

    Suppress SDSF ULOG panel after z/OS V2.5

    SDSF ULOG display was changed by z/OS V2.5 following. <V2.4>The users who do not authorized READ access to resource ISFCMD.ODSP.ULOG.jesx could not display ULOG panel. <V2.5> The users became to display ULOG panel whether authorized or...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

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