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zOSMF - NCA allow to delete default 'Security Levels'

Since a recent upgrade the NCA introduced the capability to delete or add all the default rules which is an appreciated feature. Whereas this idea focuses on the extension of the same functionality to the 'Security Levels'. As we only operate on c...
3 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

DFSMStvs have a hard upper limit set in PARMLIB that cannot be overridden by JCL

Currently the TVSAMCOM in PARMLIB can be overridden by including TVSAMCOM=(n,n) on the JCL EXEC statement. in our case, we've had a couple of instances where an application did not take the default set in PARMLIB and flooded the CF and SMSVSAM wit...
24 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 0 Under review

We need remove the limitation on AIX for the VSAM

My client has larger Index they are not able to accommodate all the index in VSAM if we increase the AIX limitation more then 32,768 it will help the client
25 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 0 Under review

SDSF ISFLOG REXX requirement

While searching the string in SYSLOG using ISFLOG there is option to print the Matching Lines and subsequent lines to the Matching String (by using isflinelim ). I would like to introduce a new feature to Print Previous Lines of the matching String .
30 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Under review

Ability to utilize an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to transfer data to an S3 bucket

Our company has an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that requires us to use roles instead of IDs to access AWS. After meeting with Andrew Wilt from IBM, it was suggested we open this new Idea as this is not currently supported under DFS...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Under review

Allow programmatic determination if a zIIP engine is online temporarily for System Recovery Boost

We have had several customer requests for determining if a zIIP engine is online due to a System Recovery Boost or not (to prevent accidental activation in an LPAR). Currently the only way of doing this is by issuing a D M=CPU operator command and...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Under review

Display tagging information for files on z/OS UNIX Directory List ISPF applications.

ISPF applications File Manager HFS Browse/Edit and Udlist (3.17) should display the tagging information like a ls -lT shell command. Example: t IBM-1047 T=on t ISO8859-1 T=on I'm using enhanced ASCII support and needing to tag text files and find ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Under review

zOSMF - NCA Allow comparision of policies between stacks

It shall be possible to compare an AT-TLS policy (and as well all other technologies available in NCA) between two defined TCPIP Stacks. As I can have a staggered approach to deploy new rules or other attributes of a policy for stack A, I want to ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

WLM performance index evaluation period should be reduced to 5 seconds or less

We have critical transactions that all of them should be ended in any case within 3 seconds. Even theses transaction have been properly defined to WLM, during high CPU utilization intervals, some of these transactions run for more than 5 seconds c...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Under review

Enhance zsh so the delete key works as on other platforms

Currently the zsh shell works well on 3.1 but the delete key on z/OS does not work the same as on Linux. On z/OS 3.1 zsh the delete key generates a ~ character and inserts it. The zsh shell should be consistent.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Under review

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