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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 12, 2021

zOS PT - Support for a 6 character APPLID prefix

Currently, zOSPT only supports a 5 character prefix followed by * in SNA application range definition within Network Configuration Assistant.

To work around this we changed the CICS workflow provided by zOSPT to use the software service instance name (which supports 6 character prefix followed by 2 character dynamically generated suffix to provide uniqueness).

It would be simpler if 6 character APPLIDs were allowed in the SNA application range definition within Network Configuration Assistant.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Feb 24, 2023
    This item is unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into product plan.
  • Guest
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    Mar 10, 2021

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS Communications Server
    Component - Other
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - z/OSMF
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Mar 9, 2021

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - z/OSMF
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS Provisioning Toolkit
    Component - Workflow
    Operating system - z/OS
    Source - None