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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

Display more than eight Systems in ISMF panels

When displaying the volumes of a storage group MVS and SMS statuses for only eight systems are shown (e.g panelid DGTLGP36). In environments with more systems it is toilsome to get an overview especially when there is a large number of disks in th...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

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

remote console access /zVM

remote console access to the end user in IaaS provider use case when there is any issue for them to connect to the VM in regular ways.
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 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 ...
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

Make String variable text box re-sizable

I created a string variable called "fileContent" and mapped it to the response body from a GET REST API call. The GET REST API reads the contents of a dataset member. My goal is to edit the file contents in the variable and do a PUT REST API to up...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Create RACF resource for using parameter ONLYAT on command without beeing SPECIAL

In our customer environment, we have 3 sysplexes (test, acceptance and Production) with 3 KSystem --> 6 RACF database.Without SPECIAL attribute, it's not possible to use parameter ONLYAT on RACF cmds to address only one RACF database on a RRSF ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

SMF type30 to include on task/job level ECSA/CSA and PVT/ePVT actual usage

Please include on type30 SMF record task level ECSA/CSA and PVT/ePVT actual usage fields.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 3 Not under consideration

IRRADU00 support for IBM MFA SMF Type 83 subtype 7

IRRADU00 should support SMF Type 83 subtype 7 records created by IBM MFA. Currently, I seeIRR67654I The SMF record type 83 subtype 7 for product 5655MFA01 - IBM Multi-Factor Authentication for z/OS with FMID is unknownIRR67581I The failing record,...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

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