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Provide Rest API Interfaces for Health Checks

As a tester, it is useful for me to automate Health Checks remotely while running on the PC rather than having to use the current mechanism of invoking HZSPRINT. I think it would be also useful for general customer automation of Health Checks. We ...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zCX: Make docker cli available as MODIFY command to the STC

Currently, we've to login to zCX to issue "docker" commands like docker logs to zCX. In an early phase like POC / testing this is no problem. But as we're continuing / have the first production applications running, Operators also have to work wit...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Add scan/search capabilities to search through all backup members of a specific element

In the situation where a change tracker managed member must be restored, it’s not always clear which backup version of the member is the right one to restore. As of today, you can get a list of backups by clicking the menu button and the “Recover ...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Enable VSAM browse/view from ISPF (without additional product such as File Manager)

Browse (and perhaps view) a VSAM dataset directly from ISPF without having to install an additional product such as File Manager
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Keep history of changes when changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF, although the person who submits the updates can view information about their changes from the View Text Contents panel, others don't know what changes they have made. So we want to keep the hist...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Need an API to provide additional timer synchronization information (i.e. D ETR) for SDSF

SDSF needs an API to gather 'timing' information such as ETS ID, STRATUM 1 NODE, Preferred Time Server/Backup Time Server/Arbiter (output of D ETR command) to implement new fields/panels in SDSF. Description/use case: Customers can configure STP o...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Future consideration

Add Batch job name to report besides the default Userid

The current process for reporting on changes to PDS/PDSE members for any add, deletes, updates, changes will list only the userid. The client currently uses PDSMAN, and STOW option, and this report also list changes made by batch jobs. The batch j...
5 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Automatic procedure to extract the WLM Policy

We need an improvement for the WLM code to provide us a way to extract the WLM Policy without manual intervetion.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 3 Future consideration

Enhancement on TCP/IP DROP command

Right now, tcp connection could be dropped by vary tcpip drop command based on the connection id. However, user would like to drop connection straight forward by the destination ip address, instead of spending time on checking the connection id by...
3 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Support Element BCPii should notify the operating system when the CPC is put into and out of SERVICE mode

The BCPii in the z16 processor was enhanced to notify the operating system that the SE is unavailable when it is rebooting and when it is back online and available to be used. Use case was so that Operations didn't have to manually suspend BCPii v...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

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