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A new paramenter to automatically throttle the amount of DVE requests to be processed based upon a user's region spec.

Please make a change to introduce a new parameter for DEVMAN to automatically throttle the amount of requests to be processed based upon a user's region specification.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Output field in a Naviquest sample job

I am trying to run some naviquest reports from the SYS1.SACBCNTL(ACBJBAIX) sample. This is a Storage Group report that is using ISMF. I would like to get the Description field but it doesnt seem that this is available. The Description is listed in...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

SPC's _24malc() and _4kmalc() for Metal C

Given SPC is stabilized, would be nice if the 2 SPC RTL functions that are not tied to SPC environment management were available in the Metal C RTL, namely _24malc() and _4kmalc(), rather than having to use __asm() to embed STORAGE macro calls. I ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Metal C Run-time Library 0 Future consideration

API to interrogate global CEA settings

CEA API to be extended to provide a query function which returns the currently-active global settings - that is, those configured via CEAPRMxx parmlib member. For example: TSOASMGR ( RECONSESSIONS(0) RECONTIME(00:00:00) )
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 0 Future consideration

Handle LamAlef character when converting from z/OS to Windows

There is a special handling for LamAlef character when converting from Visual (zOS) to Implicit (Windows) and vise versa. The LamAlef character is expanded into two characters (Lam and Alef) and uses the spaces in the source buffer for its expansi...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

OAEP support for RSA PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV

Require CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV to support OAEP padding. Currently only the older format padding 1.5 is supported
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Future consideration

Need to break up roles for IPSEC command

We need to get the –f default and the –f reload IPSEC commands seperated from our the other standared commands on the system. This will allow us to assign the proper rolls to them for elevated access. This would also be true for Defense Management...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Change to the wording of $HASP865 CONFIRM MEMBER(004) NAME=xxxx IS TO BE ADDED

The wording of this Jes2 WTOR does not provide enough information for our operators to make a decision $HASP865 CONFIRM MEMBER(004) NAME=HOD9 IS TO BE ADDED It would be more constructive for the WTOR to read as follows :- $HASP865 CONFIRM MEMBER(0...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

LE modification for fork thread behaviour

There are multiple instances in the the core python implementation and in pypi packages where a thread calls fork and the child process tries to create a thread using pthread_create but results in an error. This error is due to the LE design imple...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Provide an interface to regular expression processing for LE conforming languages

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSLANG12001; Voting Priority=2.6 +5=1 +4=4 +3=10 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=2 -1=1 Priority=2.6 IBM should provide an interface to regular expression processing from LE conforming languages that does not require th...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

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