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Core Infrastructure

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Enhance the S, F and L line commands to work with hidden lines

The 'S', 'F' and 'L' line commands are used to reshow hidden lines, and can only be entered on lines that are not displayed ***and*** not hidden. It would be very useful if "doubled" ("SS", "FF" and "LL") versions could be used on the lines immedi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Improve the way of reporting FICON Link Incident Report

(System)Core banking systems (Description)In z/OS1.7 or later, when Linux on z recieves FICON Link Incident Report (LIR), zOS1.7 LPAR reports the LIR to the lowest MIF number of LPAR. BTMU would like to select whether or not z/OS reports the LIR.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 46 Future consideration

Create new ICH4xxI FETCHING PROGRAM program-name, FROM LIBRARY message - Improve Messages for Controlled Environments

Enhance IRRENS00 to add an additional message to always ensure an ICH message is issued that contains the offending library name. I was in contact with Bruce Wells about this requirement in October. Bruce explains that his Contents Supervisor cont...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

ISPF Extended Stats when Member Record Count > 64K

With the ability to have PDSE members with more than 64K records the basic ISPF statistics fails. Extended ISPF Stats is an option that must be set site wide or by the individual user/member. Requesting that when a member is saved with more than 6...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Future consideration

Distributed Identity Mapping Support for JWT Token Subject

As of today, when using JWT Token with RACF, the subject is documented to be required to be the RACF Userid. As such the RACF userid must be known to the creator of the JWT Token.RACF JWT support should be enhanced to allow to send a users X.500 D...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

ADD HEALTH CHECKER FOR IOS RECOVERY

There are IECIOSxx settings that would be helpful for reducing the recovery time of Channel Path errors.However, unless you are aware of them, they do no good. there are 100's of parameter settings and as IBM discovers best practices, adding IBM H...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Provide more granular control over the maximum number of processes limits

Currently, the maximum number of processes is controlled by the MAXPROCSYS value in BPXPRMxx. There are warnings not to set this value too high as each process has the potential to consume its own address space. This means that MAXPROCSYS should n...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Make the ISPF TSO Command Function Consistently Across All ISPF Panels

an IBM Case was recently created to describe a problem encountered by RACF administrator, who had recently converted the RACF password pattern to include lower case characters. The problem encountered they discovered was that the ISPF TSO Command ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Allow concatenated commands in ISPF ZEXPAND

Allow the use of concatenated commands in ZEXPAND in ISPF.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

DFSMShsm failed CDS Backup only stops automatic functions on just one system

If the cds backup fails, the auto functions should be stopped on all systems, not just the one on which the backup was running.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration