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Core Infrastructure

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Allow /usr/sbin/chmount to be able to change SETUID/NOSETUID dynamically

At the moment there is no dynamic way of switching between SETUID and NOSETUID using /usr/sbin/chmount. If you need to switch between these two mode it requires an umount/mount of the file system and potentially an outage of the application using ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Add a section identifier to the Binder API buffers

This is an enhancement suggestion for the Binder API. To correlate section level data returned by the Binder API, you need to match on section names. This is both within a single call and across calls. Example 1: The IDRL (Language Processor IDR) ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

zERT Network Analyzer - resume data upload after connection to DB2 is restored

Request for z/OS® Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) We would like to request a change for zERT to automatically resume the connection to DB2 and data upload after the connection is dropped.There could be an option to define how many attempts ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Provide better messaging and prevent hang situation in dynamic RRSF main switching

Prevent blocking situations when user is starting a RRSF dynamic main switch if conditions of empty inmsg data sets is not met. Currently it is difficult to detect what the reasons are if a RRSF dynamic main switch is not completed. IBM should try...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

SYSZIGW0 should prevent deletion

My customer encountered the message IGW039I while allocating a new dataset although the dataset could have been deleted normally. The deletion should be prevented by qname SYSZIGW0. Please refer to case TS009656465 for more details.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 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

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

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

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