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Generating SAN Certificate via GSKKYMAN Utility under OMVS

Hello Team , Currently we are generating SAN certificate under OMVS via utility GSKKYMAN , while choosing certain option 1 /2 etc to generate the CSR . We are in a process to transform this manual / labor intensive work in our environment via some...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Future consideration

Provide support for IKED/NSSD for PassPhrases or Protected in RACF

Our organization is migrating from a password to passphrase environment. Our userids for the IKED and NSSD started tasks have passwords. We would like to make these IDs RACF PROTECTED or be able to use a PassPhrase. But it seems via the case that ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future 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.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Add functionality to report PDSE version 1 or 2 in DCOLLECT

PDSE v2 data sets were introduced in zOS v2.1. Yet I have no means to monitor and report existence of PDSE v2 data sets.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

SMP/E warning message for installed excluded sysmods

SYSMODs that are superseded by another SYSMOD being applied are not excluded even if they are specified on the EXCLUDE operand.Additionally apply and apply check does not provide any information - warning messages, that excluded ptfs were implemen...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future 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...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

SMP/E unconditional exclude

SMP/E RSU maintenance is standard process for many users. Our case is simple. We applied maintenance and found sysmod which caused problem for our application. We restored sysmod which caused issue. In next maintenance cycle we run RSU maintenance...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Instruction-execution-protection support should be provided for CPOOLs and IARCP64 and IARST64.

For the same reasons support is available in IARV64 and STORAGE OBTAIN/RELEASE: System integrity
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 0 Future consideration

Override Unique WorkflowName Requirement

Creating an override to bypass the unique zOSMF WorkflowNames requirement
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Evicting a job and restarting should work as expected even when there are passed temporary datasets.

When a batch job is evict and restarted, it no longer has access to passed temporary data sets. The requested enhancement is make this process work as expected, which is for the job to be able to continue correctly after eviction and restart when ...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Not under consideration