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z/OSMF RESTful APIs for RACF management

Dear, Our customer ICBC is trying to use z/OSMF to implement RACF management such as password reset, user resume and so on. But now z/OSMF didn't provide any API to implement it. We open this RFE in order to request z/OSMF to provide RESTful API t...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF - enable JCL edit for software deployment jobs

software management under zOSMF allows for deployment of products to target systems. The tooling builds a set of batch jobs which can then be executed to deploy the software. The tooling builds the batch jobs in a set way and although it may work ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

JES2 Access enhancement for MSGCLASS, SYSOUT as already provided for JOBLCASS

We are using a user written exit to control usage of: SYSOUT JOBCLASS MSGCLASS OUTPUTCLASS Currently supported by RACF out of the Box is 'only' the JOBCLASS using Profiles: JES.JOBCLASS.* in CL(FACILITY)
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Send TCP/IP reply traffic over the same interface

Provide a way to force the TCP/IP Stack to send reply traffic over the same interface that the request came in on.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

multiple "F ANTAS000,..." consol commands have to be executed correctly w/o errors like "IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY"

multiple StateSave via "F ANTAS000,STATESAVE muuuu 0 N" consol commands have to be executed correctly w/o errors like "IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY"
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 3 Future consideration

Support NOTIFY JCL in PROCs and INCLUDEs - (was Add dynamic system symbol for max return code of a job)

MVS already defines a dynamic system symbol for the job name of the current job (&JOBNAME). It would be nice to also have a symbol for the highest return code of the current job
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 6 Future consideration

IFASMFDL DUMP start date time window

While switching from SMF dataset mode to logstream mode, we noticed that IFASMFDP (dataset mode) behaves differently than IFASMFDL (logstream) wrt the date/time windows:- IFASMFDP allows to dump records from start date "-1"/time "xx:xx" up until e...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Increase CP areas to maximum supported size on VM installs

Historically, VM delivered a modest average size for most CP areas like ckpt, warmstart, and directory. Now that disk is no longer really constrained on most systems and VM management skills are increasingly rare, increasing the reserved areas to ...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

QUERY ACTIVE(TCBADDRESS) output ARC0162I VOL= parm to have current tape being processed than (or) in addition to the first tape

When fuctions such as Data Set RECOVER is in progress for a very long time spanning hours for huge files, the output from QUERY ACTIVE(TCBADDRESS) currently lists the VOLUME=vvvvvv parm with the first HSM backup tape, even after it is done with th...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

$HASP1551 LIST Messaging for HTTP_NOTIFY

When JOBDEF is coded with HTTP_NOTIFY=DISABLED and a z/OSMF request specifies X-IBM-Notification-URL, JES2 issues message $HASP1551 even though notification will not be possible. $HASP1551 LIST -- Send HTTP notification when job is READY $HASP1551...
4 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration