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SMP/E Commands with CHECK should have their own RACF Resource

SMP/E utilizes the RACF profiles for the various commands such as APPLY, ACCEPT, RESTORE. These commands provide a CHECK option which does NOT update any libraries but simply checks to see if everything is correct to proceed with the actual updati...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Graphic interface for backup/restore USS files with DFSMShsm or "-pick" option similar to TSM-client

Additionally to the commando interface for backup/restore of USS-files with DFSMShsm it would be very useful for endusers, who use only ssh-connect to USS on z/OS, to have any kind of graphish interface to backup/restore of USS-files similar to TS...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

QUERY ACTIVE(TCBADDRESS) output ARC0162I VOL= parm to have current tape being processed than (or) in addition to the first tape

When fuctions such as Data Set RECOVER is in progress for a very long time spanning hours for huge files, the output from QUERY ACTIVE(TCBADDRESS) currently lists the VOLUME=vvvvvv parm with the first HSM backup tape, even after it is done with th...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Under review

$HASP1551 LIST Messaging for HTTP_NOTIFY

When JOBDEF is coded with HTTP_NOTIFY=DISABLED and a z/OSMF request specifies X-IBM-Notification-URL, JES2 issues message $HASP1551 even though notification will not be possible. $HASP1551 LIST -- Send HTTP notification when job is READY $HASP1551...
2 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Programmatically accessible output

Currently system programmers may need to check health check reports from multiple systems. Providing the output in a format such as JSON would allow them to consolidate and dashboard on the status of multiple systems much more easily.
2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Planned for future release

z/OSMF Files API - Fully Support Migrated / Archived z/OS Data Sets

z/OSMF appears to detect migrated / archived z/OS data sets by the pseudo VOLSER name of `MIGRAT`. However, ISV products, like CADISK, may be configured to archive data sets on a VOLSER of 'ARCIVE`. z/OSMF should detect ARCIVE data sets as being m...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 4 Future consideration

zERT - Show a hint when zOSMF NCA will generate multiple policy agent rules

As there is no 1:n mapping from the zERT rules to the implementable policy, zERT will generate as many rules as required and append a suffix like ~1, ~2, ~n. However when coding those rules in the zOSMF NCA GUI there is not hint that the resulting...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Setting shorter timeouts (e.g. 10th of seconds) in z/OS® client web enablement toolkit

The z/OS® client web enablement toolkit provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable traditional, native z/OS programs to participate in modern web services applications. In z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit you can use t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Test Submission Disregard

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/24/2024 Submitter Name: Slayte Admin USER Submitter Email: admin@slayte.com Description: Test Submission Disregard
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Not under consideration

Test idea for SHARE 2

Please ignore this is a test
2 months ago in z/OS / sharetest 1 Under review

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