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ZOWE User Redbook

So many questions in Zowe Slack! A user-friendly Redbook for user-level Zowe WIBNI
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

System SSL HTTP CRL request should understand all valid HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol responses

At the moment System SSL describes the following requirement:"System SSL uses the HTTP/1.1 protocol to send the HTTP CRL request and requires an HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol response.The HTTP response must include a valid content-length field tha...
5 months ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Future consideration

Data integrity check per dasd volume

Right now, data integrity is very very important in all IT systems. Very often, we would perform dasd volume copy in daily BAU or in system upgrade steps. We need to have a easy to use, straight forward and fast method to compare the data in 2 das...
12 days ago in z/OS / General 0 Submitted

DSFS takes 2 minutes to release ENQ on dataset member

Problem: We are starting to use DSFS. When I open a member in DSFS, I can see there is an enqueue of DSFS on the member. But when closing the file, it takes another 2 minutes before the enqueue is lifted. We tried to change the following values in...
12 days ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 0 Submitted

Add Ability to install new products into existing CSI with z/OSMF Software Management

We would need a way to install new products into an existing SMP CSI_ using z/OSMF Software Management.For us, it would be sufficient, if z/OSMF under the covers installs the product into a temporary new CSI and then offers the option to merge tha...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Enhance zsh so the delete key works as on other platforms

Currently the zsh shell works well on 3.1 but the delete key on z/OS does not work the same as on Linux. On z/OS 3.1 zsh the delete key generates a ~ character and inserts it. The zsh shell should be consistent.
7 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Provide an operator command to display active z/OSMF Users

Currently the systems programmer and operator can display all active jobs, tso users, and shell (sshd) users, but they are unable to display the z/OSMF users. This information is helpful when planning to shutdown a system for a planned (or unplann...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

JES2 $POLICY DISPLAY enhancement

$POLICY DISPLAY currently only shows installed JES2 policies and whether they are enabled or not. To keep the overview of all policies, there should be some enhancements made on this: Include the POLICYLIB from which the policy was loaded Include ...
3 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration
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RMF Monitor I Device activity should report about devices that were offline on a part of an interval

System: z/OS USER which uses RMF Actor: User needing RMF Monitor I Device activity report enhancement Description: RMF is a commonly used product on z/OS platform for reporting system resource such as I/O activity. Our customer encountered HyperSw...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

HWTJCREN: Support unnamed root arrays in JSON parser

JSON allows for unnamed arrays as root, e.g. [] is perfectly correct. However, the Web Enablement toolkit currently rejects the request to create an unnamed array as root with HWTJ_JCREN_ENTRYVALUETYPE_INV. It should accept the request without a n...
25 days ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

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