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z/OS

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Copy and Paste Functionality of the output within z/OSMF should be in a readable format

When our Operations Team forward an Incident/Problem ticket to the second level support or any other team for further analysis, they put their findings, i.e. copy the required details and paste it in the ticket, so that second level support does n...
10 months 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.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Enhance SERVAUTH EZB.PORTACCESS SAF checks to capture the name of the REAL program calling for the port in an 80 record & ICH408I message

When something is abusing the port finding the calling program is not always that easy. So I think it should be possible for z/OS Comm Server itself to record that informaiton somewhere in the type 80 record. It would also be beneficial to add it ...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Message for when Join does not occur due to Moninterface issue

We had an issue where we were doing some maintenance on our Sandbox system where we had MONINTERFACE coded. The engineer dynamically deleted the interfaces and re added them, minus the Moninterface. When we realized that we weren’t in the TCPPLEX ...
10 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 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

zOSMF Properties of Workflow Screen needs to allow others in the group to see all tabs

If a racf group in addition to to a individual are assigned to to a task/step, the members of the team that were not the individual owners of a task/step could not see any of the info in the Dependencies, Perform, Status, Input Variables, and Feed...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

RLSENABLE to fail when no CF structures defined

By providing the required define parameters for RLS and specifying storage class that did not have the required CF structures defined. The catalog was defined successfully, and a MODIFY CATALOG,RLSENABLE(catalogName) was successful. An attempt to ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

provide a way to list data sets in the order they appear on the volume using IEHLIST

Currently, IEHLIST LISTVTOC only lists the data sets on a volume in alphabetical order. We would like a way to have the data sets listed in order as they appear on the volume or the order they appear in the VTOC itself.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future 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

Request to add more flexibility to PDSE Member Generations

This is an enhancement suggestion for the next version of PDSE libraries. With PDSE V2, you can retain multiple generations of members. This feature may have been added to close one of the remaining PDSE functionality gaps compared to regular PDS ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 3 Future consideration