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API Calls in Java in addition to assembler, Cobol and C++

I have customers who writes all the programs for mainframe in Java. New developers are better writting Java code rather than others. The tools for development are in workstation and they test their programs on the workstation. My idea is to have t...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Allow programmatic determination if a zIIP engine is online temporarily for System Recovery Boost

We have had several customer requests for determining if a zIIP engine is online due to a System Recovery Boost or not (to prevent accidental activation in an LPAR). Currently the only way of doing this is by issuing a D M=CPU operator command and...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Planned for future release

To be complete, the IPCS SUMMARY COMMAND dispatchablity information needs to go beyond TCBFLGS4 and also include WEB dispatchablity information plus more

From IPCS, the SUMMARY command is widely used to determine the state of a TCB in a given address space. That includes the TCBFLGS4 non-dispatiblity flags. For example, if a TCB was in an RB wait via the Wait service, IPCS would state that 'Top RB ...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Future consideration

testing please delete 2

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 04/04/2024 Submitter Name: Meredith Halperin Submitter Email: mhalperin@share.org Description: testing please delete
11 days ago in z/OS / sharetest 1 Needs more information

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...
12 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

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...
12 days ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration
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Add recovery function for REWIND/LOCATE failure on tape job.

System: z/OS Actor : user needing stronger fault tolerance Description: One of the reason why our customer uses z/OS is its storng fault tolerance. Especially, in multi-path einvironment they expect that I/O job will normally continue its process ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

Add job classes REST call to z/OSMF API

It would be useful if the z/OSMF REST API allowed you to get a list of all job classes on a system, this could be used in IDE extensions, external management tools or automating documentation.
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability for DSS to be able to scratch and reallocate an in use (ENQed) dataset that is not the actual dataset in use during a logical copy operation.

System programmers who maintain indirectly cataloged datasets on a maintenance sysres / sysres set that gets cloned to an IPLable sysres set.
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 5 Future consideration

zERT Analyzer - Allow for inverted filters for TCP/EE Endpoints

Currently the selected filters for the TCP or EE Endpoints do only allow to use include filters. However, I want to specifically exclude a Server and Client address range, which is currently notpossible. Hence, the plugin shall support the option ...
4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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