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Core Infrastructure

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Add auto refresh/update

When checking the status of running automation workflows or when user needs to manually do steps they are often mashing the refresh button in order to see status changes. Suggestion to add a method to automatically update on changes or refresh in ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

AMAPDUPL and meaningful error messages

Using AMAPDUPL return sometimes RC different of zero. In general this RC and messages are not meaningful or comprehensible or printed on the sysout. For exemple, if you want to have a TARGET_DSN with an £ character, the server return a bad request...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

ADD STGADMIN profile to allow EXPORT of catalog without the need to have ALTER access on catalog name

ADD STGADMIN profile to allow EXPORT of catalog without the need to have ALTER access on catalog name
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

DSFS to release enqueues in a timely manner

DSFS holds excl enqueues on datasets for minutes at a time.
11 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

DFSMSdss SPACEREL command to support UCB unit address

Dear IBM Developer team, After working with the IBM support team for DFSMSdss SPACEREL command, we have realized that it is not possible to use UCB unit address in the DYNam parameter for the SPACEREL command, and it only supports VOLSER and STORG...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 4 Future consideration

Enhance IRRXUTIL/R_admin to support DIGTCERT/DIGTCERT

I would like to see the R_admin/IRRXUTIL interface enhanced to support the "non-standard" RACF classes DIGTCERT and DIGTRING, this would allow administrators to extract all digital certificate info using IRRXUTIL without needing to rely on using I...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

CSSMTP Suppport for SASL Methods PLAIN and KERBEROS

CSSMTP Suppport for SASL Methods PLAIN and KERBEROS. Our Security Department requires any Mail Sender to identify itself via 'Simple Authentication and Security Layer' (SASL). Three SASL Methods would fulfill that requirement: a) Method PLAIN. A M...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Provide an option to run the zCX upgrade workflow fully automated

Currently the first two steps of the zCX upgrade workflow need to be run manually. It would be great, if these two steps can run automatically, so the whole workflow process needs no further manual intervention, once it was started. This would als...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Add DTLS Support for Enterprise Extender

We would like to see if DTLS could be added in Enterprise Extender so we could use SSL with UDP.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

DFSMS ACS &MAXSIZE for Extended Format datasets

The value for the variable &MAXSIZE in DFSMSdfp Automatic Class Selection for NON-VSAM datasets is always calculated as 1 x Primary + 15 x Secondary, + Directory if applicable. In the case of &DSNTYPE being EXC, EXR or LIBRARY this value s...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration