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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...
11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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

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 ...
11 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 ...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

RACF DELGROUP FORCE, and message enhancements

The usability of the RACF command DELGROUP could be improved. Also the error messages are useless and inaccurate. I want to be able to run a script to define RACF resources, and have a script to clean up. For most resources I can do this. I cannot...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

make it possible to adapt/customize the motd (Message of the day)

Customers require sometimes that the use of zCX adheres to customer policies & rules. They want to communicate this via motd.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 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 the HZS0201I message to include the "active" Check parameters

The current output (the HZS0201I message) from the DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAIL command displays the "DEFAULT PARAMETERS" and the "USER SUPPLIED PARAMETERS", but it does not display the list of parameters that are actually being used by the Check. One mi...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Not under consideration

HSM to support multiple CMD members

Sometimes in DR situation, we will be needing special commands to be submitted when HSM comes up. For this, we can issue those via automation. But whenever there is an IPL or when HSM is recycled, those commands will be lost. Instead of depending ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Functionality already exists