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zospt utility

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Identify workflow jobs outside of z/osmf thro use of JCL comments

It would be nice to be able to match a submitted job to a workflow (outside of zosmf)… thro a matching comment in the JCL for the workflow and each step in the workflow.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 0 Future consideration

zospt could support dataset input for SITPARMs

The customer may have a huge number of SIT parms settings. They stores them in a specific dataset member, then set it to SYSIN in region jcl . Can we support dataset name in DFH_REGION_SITPARMS ?
about 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 2 Not under consideration

zospt could provide a image repository

CEB would like zospt provide a image repository so that they could share the image across team.ps,They may have different zospt instance,as they may have different zosmf configuration
about 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

zospt could provide function to duplicate FOR

CEB has a FOR. they'd like to provision cics region as well as the FOR, they would like to copy the files and define the files with new names in the new provisioned cics region so that the file could be opened in both existing FOR and new provisio...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

zospt could provide a method to deploy a image to an existing region

CEB wonder if zospt could provide a method to apply a image to an existing region, even the region is provisioned by zospt, so that they could deploy new resources once the region is been provisioned.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

Zospt could reproduce the current existing CPSM together with the data

BOC have several suite of CPSM, and would like zospt to quickly re-produce the exactly same one, including the topology and the data including the repository data and CSD data
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

Zospt could customize the created region JCL

For now, zospt will provision a CICS region by build a customized JCL, however, some steplib like SDFJAUTH, and SCEERUN2 is not been required by BOC,they don't put them into the apf list, so that this will leads to a start up error.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

Zospt provide the ability to maintain/manage existing systems

Zospt could extract the properties from the existing CICS or other systems and maintain this into a template or property file so that it could easily maintain the current system in case it been destroyed by exception.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

CICS provisioning workflow - VSAM dataset definitions

In the CICS provisioning workflow, the USS zfs definition uses DATACLAS while the definition for the CSD uses volume and unit.Both are VSAM. It would like to be able to use any SMS class or none by using a volume and unit for either dataset.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 0 Future consideration

Provisioned CICS JOBNAME and APPLID

There should be a separation between the APPLID and the started task JOBNAME.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 2 Not under consideration