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    require persistent connectivity for SPLUNK in DATAPUMP

    We send data to SPLUNK and recent update has broken the process. Product needs persistent connectivity, like it is has with InfluxDB to function.
    1 day ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

    ISPF Edit Highlighting for awk

    awk is a powerful scripting language for text manipulation in the USS arena. ISPF should support this language. All ISPF users would benefit from this enhancement.
    7 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

    Add a confirmation panel for Free command in ISPF command line.

    In ISPF add a confirmation panel for Free command. My customers want this fucntion. Becase they wants to prohibit thier datasets from being compressed unintentional.
    2 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

    Support for 32 TB of real memory per LPAR via feature statement

    Would like to be able to have fewer, larger LPARs. If the reconfigurable memory is the limiting factor, then for cases where reconfigurable/dynamic memory is not needed, it should be possible to include a config file statement that disables/bypass...
    8 days ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

    z/VM TCPIP : add support to VMSSL for SNI(Server Name Indication)

    We require this to allow for connections to cloud provisioned services under Openshift and without SNI within zVM VMSSL this is not possible.
    6 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Add TOP option to ISPF MEMLIST dialog service

    Enhance the ISPF MEMLIST dialog service to include an option such as TOP(membername) as is found in LMMDISP. This would permit the MEMLIST invocation to scroll a specified member to the top of the resulting member list. The behavior would be the s...
    20 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

    Allow pattern characters in ISPF member selection list FILTER command

    The ISPF member selection list FILTER primary command allows only a trailing wildcard such as: FILTER NAME EQ LOAD* This enhancement would permit leading, middle pattern characters, both of: * (asterisk) : zero or more characters % (percent sign) ...
    20 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

    Enable Ansible integration with z/VM

    Ansible Automation is an extremely popular tool that is available on many platforms (including zOS) except for zVM. While providing native SSH access to zVM may be unrealistic I believe that leveraging a Linux VM with SMCLI to communicate to SMAPI...
    9 months ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration
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    Full ISPF Support for PDSE V2 Generations

    ISPF needs to fully support PDSE V2 generations. Currently ISPF Edit supports creating a new generation when a member is saved but none of the other ISPF services recognize a generation. Access to prior generations is not intuitive and thus effect...
    over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 9 Future consideration

    Enable flashcopy Command for ESE Volumes

    With the new DS8A00 and FCM4 it is necessary to define all Volumes as type ESE (Extended Space Efficent). But we found that the normal flshcopy command under z/VM doesn't either work with ESE-Volumes. You must establish, copy and withdrawn the Fla...
    9 months ago in z/VM 3 Functionality already exists

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