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Could you add a new command ZCX to show zcx instances and their characteristics (Memory,@ip, level, ...)

today we issue these commands to get statistics for our ZCX : F ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,CONFIGF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,DISKVERF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,DISKF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,NETF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,VERSIONF ZCXL0001,DISPLAY,PCIE
13 days ago in z/OS / SDSF Functionality already exists

Would like LDAP to be able to List RACF dataset profiles using LISTDSD (LD), I am trying to list Dataset access on a Web User interface (UI).

LDAP is able today to list USER, Groups and General Resources, but is not able to List Dataset information.
19 days ago in z/OS / LDAP Functionality already exists

System SSL first capture doc

When ever there is an issue with SYSTEM SSL and we have a failure we always need to do a recreate of the issue or get more tracing. It would be better if we can get some type of first failure documentation through SMF records when an error occurs.
2 months ago in z/OS / SSL Functionality already exists

HMC extract in JSON format using BCPII

We need to have a view of the HMC config to compare and do some statistics.
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii Functionality already exists

Add standard x509 certificate id in RACDCERT LIST command

In order to compare/verify the certificate installed in z/OS is the same as the one provided by an external PKI. The information displayed in windows certificate management tool regarding the certificate identifyer (x509 standard) differs from the...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF Functionality already exists

Add proxy settings to the Z/OSMF workflow for zCX

Hi, For a user to be able to download containers from the outside world from a zCX SSH prompt when you are behind a proxy they all must run "export http_proxy=..." commands. I think that is quite awkward. Especially since you have to do it every t...
8 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) Functionality already exists

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.
10 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Functionality already exists

ISPF Edit Highlighting for HTML in ASCII mode

ISPF highlighting should support highlighting HTML in ASCII mode. With the growth of HTML files in USS that appear in ASCII mode, ISPF support of these files makes sense. HTML coders will benefit, as well as the entire ISPF ecosystem.
11 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Functionality already exists

ISPF Edit Highlighting for Natural

ISPF Highlighting should support Natural code. This will improve productivity for Natural coders and will generally benefit the entire ISPF ecosystem.
11 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Functionality already exists

sdsf parmlib option give member name

We have the sdsf.parm command today. which lists the datasets in parmlib concatenation.It would be good to be able to issue sdsf.parm IGDSMS00 and it displays __ user.parmlib(IGDSMS00) __ sys1,parmlib(IGDSMS00) so I can then browse/edit it directl...
11 months ago in z/OS / SDSF Functionality already exists

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