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Upgrade ADRDSSU to RMODE=ANY

ADRDSSU is currently linked as RMODE=24 and AMODE=31. Processes that call ADRDSSU dynamically can occasionally fail due to limited region below 16MB.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

RACF Validation of External JWT for CICS Provider RESTFul and Web Services

CICS RESTFUL and WEB Services most commonly execute in provider modes, receiving messages from external sources. A facility in RACF to validate JWT for CICS Web Services and RESTFUL from externally provided JWT would enable CICS applications to be...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA: provide new options in older releases

Today, new network security parameters are made available in the Network Configuration Agent along with the new z/OS release. If the NCA is running in a production environment, these new network security parameters for the Policy Agent can only be...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Implement an autostart feature for workflows so that instantiating a workflow with an auto-enabled step automatically starts the workflow too

Currently, The POST /zosmf/workflow/rest/{version}/workflows endpoint will only create a workflow instance. A separate call to the PUT /zosmf/workflow/rest/{version}/workflows/{workflowKey}/operations/start endpoint needs to be made in order to st...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

print HOLDDATA for SMP/E RESTORE Command

It should be helpful, if you print the HOLDDATA on the SMP/E RESTORE Command.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Evicting a job and restarting should work as expected even when return codes of steps executed before eviction are tested.

When a batch job is evict and restarted, it no longer has access to the return codes of steps executed prior to the eviction. The requested enhancement is make this process work as expected, which is for the job to be able to continue correctly af...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Release Doug Nadel-written ISPF utilities to Github as open source

During Doug Nadel’s long and storied career at IBM ISPF, he wrote many useful little utilities. He also had posted some of them on his personal website. When he retired, he removed some of them for ethical reasons, as he felt that because he had w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Write IEFC001I and IEFC002I information to SMF

Description: At the point where IEFC001I and IEFC002I messages are produced, also write this information to SMF. The record should indicate if it was a cataloged procedure (the IEFC001I infomation) or an INCLUDE group, the member used, whether i...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Future consideration

DFRMM : TSO CMD for large number of tapes

Last year I had update more then 150.000 volumes to set HOLD=YES.I could do this only with the TSO RMM Command CV [volid] HOLD.It was very slowly (50.000. volumes in 1h40min :-( ) I think it will be nice if we have a TSO RMM Command with the optio...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

Enhance "Coordinated Graphical Views for Systems Panel" in z/OSMF V2R1 SPE3+

In the August 29 "System z Mainframe Simplification" workgroup call the "Coordinated Graphical Views for Systems Panel" was presented. By now the view is only a collection of CECs and LPARs including their detail information. There are many more a...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 44 Future consideration

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