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Add the ability to add workflows to the end of software deployment

Add the end of a software deployment it would be helpful to run self-written workflows. These workflows should be associated with the category seleted at the start of the deployment in the step "Specify the properties of this deployment."
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Better support for PDS members in z/OS C library

The z/OS C library has poor support for PDS and PDS/E. Specifically, when using fopen() to read or write members, there are no facilities to: 1) obtain existing user directory entry info (read and write)2) update user directory info (write)3) supp...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

Create command to list a users number of USS processes (in use and highwater!!)

SYSTEM : z/OS Unix System ServicesActor : KBC needs a new feature We have a need to lower our MAXPROCUSER setting to protect system stability. We use USS for many critical business processes. Description : There is no command to list the max used ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

IODF - HCD Report and Activate TEST Miss to report Explicit Device Changes

IODF Activate TEST and HCD Compare report doesn't report on the Exclusive Device list changes and Activate test result to use Force without giving more information about what is being deleted(in this case changes in the device exclusive list) whic...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF Table Services with TBHIDE and TBFLIP capability

When developing an ISPF application using tables the ability to filter the table display can significantly improve the user experience. To filter today requires that rows be deleted to remove them from the display and then added back when the filt...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Provide support for IKED/NSSD for PassPhrases or Protected in RACF

Our organization is migrating from a password to passphrase environment. Our userids for the IKED and NSSD started tasks have passwords. We would like to make these IDs RACF PROTECTED or be able to use a PassPhrase. But it seems via the case that ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Provide a percentage status of DFHSM expirebv process completion

Currently, the expirebv process for our dfhsmuss (file mode host) environment runs for days and would be nice to see a percentage completion IE, 25%, 50%, 77% completed.
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Customization of the RACF password policy

To set a general password policies along the all infrastructure
11 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

ISPF DSLIST SRCHFOR Results Selection Enhancement

The current results of the SRCHFOR and MEM within DSLIST (ISPF 3.4) present an indication of which datasets the results were found but there is no way to then select (browse/edit/view/...) the dataset with just the results. There needs to be a way...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Allow one call to set all Connection options, and one call to setup all Request options.

Hi, Instead of your caller making several calls to set up a connection or request using HWTHSET, allow them to pass an array with all the options they want to set with one call. OR Include the connect or Request options in the HWTHREQ or HWTHCONN ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

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