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Software management: Serverpac, et al. Configure Deployment should allow for BOTH a target volume, and Target Storage class, and add provision to code Dataclass

At my installation, we have SMS ACS routines for directing new OMVS datasets to certain StorClass/StorGroup, mainly for the automated allocation of user home ZFS containers.. This doesnt work for SYSRES contained OMVS datasets, so I must code STOR...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Enable Remote Option For HMC Application Restart

Would it be possible to have the option to restart the HMC app via remote access rather than just local? This maybe all that is required rather than the more heavy handed restart which I believe will take out the SE as well whereas the app restart...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Enhance DFSMS to check for assignment of DATACLASS values for the SCDS, ACDS, & COMMDS

This will inform administrators prior to an activation that a configuration conflict exist which may cause activation to go into allocation, effectively preventing activation from proceeding. Worse case could be a difficult to recover CDS file.
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 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

JES2 - Improve reaction to PROCLIB moves and Open/Close

In the above IBM Case we described a problem on one of our customer's system, whereby a PROC(00) data set was moved by the customer to a new volume and the catalogue entry adapted (DELETE & DEFINE NONVSAM). We do realise this is not a good thi...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF network configuration Assistant use cut/paste of multiple IP Addresses when creating Address Group in IPSEC policy

Ability to use notepad cut and paste to enter multiple ip addresses when creating an Address Group in ipsec policy gui interface of z/OSMF network configuration assistant.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

HMC/SE capability to send heartbeat notifcations

We have a requirement that sources of event messages that send events to our monitoring solution are also able to send heartbeat style events to indicate their continued ability to send events as and when they do occur, thereby providing a method ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

OMVS TSOCMD does *not* honor IKJTABLS

IKJTABLS is used for the TSO environment and one would expect it to be honored with the tsocmd under OMVS but it is not. This was discovered when using tsocmd parmlib and it failed but the parmlib command worked under TSO. Added parmlib to the aut...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 5 Future consideration

Changing "PRI/SEC/DIR BLKS" during a Deployment operation in z/OSMF Software Management

Using the CustomPac ISPF Dialogs, we previously had the ability to change the dataset allocations for PDS/ZFS datasets shipped via ServerPac to allow for local growth, removal of secondaries & increase of dir blocks. As zOS 2.5 is now shipped ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS General/Unknown 2 Future consideration

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