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ACEE Modification Detection events to SMF

Having an ACEE modification event generate an SMF record would be helpful to an organization's SOC team or any SIEM solution. Today the only way to generate an actionable alert is to roll your own automation and build an actionable event based on ...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Integrate zowe into the base z/OS product and maintenance stream

zowe is becoming a key part of many installations devops environment and needs to be installed and supported as part of the z/OS service stream. By doing this it will save each site the added steps involved on the installation and maintenance and ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration

DSFS support for GDGs

It would be very useful if DSFS would also support GDGs. We already exploit DSFS with ssh transfer, but missing GDG support is a road-blocker.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Add SDM recovery when HSM cancels TCT activity

On z/OS, this idea would be a design change to add SDM (system data mover) recovery when HSM (hierarchal storage manager) cancels TCT (tape cloud tiering) activity so that ANTMAIN does not need to be canceled. The SDM recovery should clean up all ...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Under review

DSFS: Automatic CCSID conversation for selected datasets/members

We'd love a enhancement in DSFS that it could do automatic conversation of datasets/members when they are used with DSFS. For example: dataset.name(member) -> Terminal emulator 1141 for Germany /dsfs/txt/dataset.name/member --> automatically...
5 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Add fuction: RMM CV command to change sysid with FORCE

Add fuction: RMM CV command to change the assigned SYSID with FORCE If a customer is running multiple LPARs that are sharing a CDS, we generally see CATSYSID(*) but if a customer is running multiple LPARS and not sharing the CDS, the SYSID could l...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

add the search volume command (sv) on assigned SYSTEM ID

We can display the assigned system ID and would be good to have the fuction to do a search by the assigned SYSTEM ID For example: Creation: Date = 2021/287 Time = 09:33:18 System ID = IBM1 Assign: Date = 2024/349 Time = 09:20:56 System ID = SYSTEM...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

z/OSMF REST TSO API.

We use the command "zowe zos-tso issue command "exec somerexx"" extensively, to reuse some of our existing REXX on Z. This causes problems sometimes, when a legacy REXX calls another legacy REXX that calls another ..., and somewhere a panel pops u...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Have Grafana sign the RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin

Our organization does not allow the installation of Grafana plugins that are not signed as it poses a security risk, and I imagine that other organizations are the same. In order for us to make use of the plugin it needs to get signed by Grafana.
6 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Enhanced monitoring of VSAM RLS activity using z/OSMF interface

Whenever there is a need to check SMSVSAM health for contention, locks response times and record queues one has to rely upon console commands usually routed to all the LPARs that run RLS workload in order to have a big picture of what is going on....
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration