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Option to allow z/OSMF dataset API to return error message rather then HTTP error response code

When we use a client to make numerous z/OSMF API dataset calls, if an error HTTP response code is returned, z/OSMF ( Liberty ) closes the established TCPIP connection. This is expected Liberty behaviour as this conforms to the published open RFC s...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Improve DSFS Help messages for readability

Improve DSFS help message to be more readable. Examples: Current dsadm createparm -help IDFS00090I Usage: IDFZADM createparm -path <path name> [{-pdsmodel <sub-directory parameters> | -psmodel <sub-file parameters>}] [-level] [-h...
11 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Function to send a broadcast message to all users of z/OSMF

There are times when the z/OS system needs to send a broadcast message to all users to inform them of some system event that is planned. The z/OS Operator SEND command does this for TSO users, as does the TSO SEND command. The shell wall command c...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Get dynamic window sizes in zOSMF NCA for legacy policies

When working on a big screen running zOSMF and the NCA plugin in full screen mode to work on any of the policies, the window in NCA does not scale to the real size of the window of zOSMF/NCA itself as it's limited to a fixed height. This must be i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

DSFS Improve IDFS00080I message

When in the shell, either via OMVS or ssh, entering dsadm by itself results in the IDFS00080I message. This message instructs the user to type in IDFZADM help or IDFZADM hep -topic. The user enter dsadm and not idfzadm and probably has no clue wha...
12 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

FS command in SDSF should show ZFS flags like RW,RS,NE,NC,CO ...

FS commands shos statistics about zFS file systems, however it does not show the flags that can be displayed by zfsadm fsinfo '*'
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Prevent sysplex outage in case of a loss of x-site DASD conn. affecting CFRM CDS's and x-site signaling conn. is maintained

When a system at site 2 first notices a loss of a CDS (primary, since that CDS is usually at site 1), it will broadcast a signal to other systems to initiate removal of the primary. The site 1 systems will dutifully do so but since all connectivit...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

zCX: Allow specification of TZ variable during provisioning / same time zone for all users

According to the zCX Users Guide every user can set TZ= environment variable to set the time zone. This would be required after every login or by changing the login script. This has to be done on a user base. It would be better if a central TZ= en...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Add new parameter in SYS1.PARMLIB to allow OAM to use an optional LPAR name for zFS-resident objects

Currently, when OAM accesses objects where the Primary copy is resident in zFS, the full filesystem pathname is built dynamically, and one of the elements in the pathname is the LPAR name. In cases where an OAM environment is moved to a different ...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 0 Future consideration

ZOSMF recursive workflow

Requesting to add feature for recursively calling workflow steps.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration