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ISPF Edit Alert Editing File With More Than 999999 Records

When editing a file greater than 999999 lines, a warning should appear to alert the user. This might take the form of a ==MSG> line, or a ISPF short and/or long message.
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

FTP - Submit a JOB from a UTF-8 encoded file

With the openness to the heterogeneous world, Clients most often work with UTF-8 encoding, while the "mvs" part of z/OS works in EBCDIC. We would like to be able to submit JOBs via FTP which on the Client are encoded in UTF-8, and that on the z/OS...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Provide syslogd isolation by jobnames for AT-TLS Applications

Provide ability for syslogd isolation for AT-TLS defined Applications to maintain their Jobnames for use in syslogd logs. Currently, all AT-TLS Applications fall under JOBNAME=TCPIP.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Search order for REXX Socket Translation Tables

The Search Order for ACSII/EBCDIC Translation Tables is described in "IP Sockets Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference". The translation tables for REXX Socket Calls are searched in the following order:1. user_prefix.subtaskid.TCPX...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

es_ES.ISO8859-15 requested

We need locale es_ES.ISO8859-15.Many different locales are shipped with z/OS as described on ' z/OS® XL C/C++ Programming Guide', 'Compiled locales' section:http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.cbcpx01/loccomp.h...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

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.
almost 8 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...
almost 8 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 ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Metal C Run-time Library 0 Future consideration

Enhance APIs, such as __login_applid() and __pthread_security_np() to support obtaining messgaes from the underlying RACROUTE

RACROUTE VERIFY ENVIR=CREATE provides the ability to return messages back from RACF to the caller of RACROUTE. With the introduction of Multi-Factor Authentication in 2016, these messages provide useful and in some cases essential information back...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Preserve High Level Qualifiers when BCPii issues a Dump

Do not overwrite the first parm in DYNDUMP! Default is *USERID, but if an installation has set a different HLQ, leave that HLQ alone! You can overwrite the rest of the DYNDUMP options, but NEVER the HLQ that is set.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 0 Future consideration