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Core Infrastructure

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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

PING Enhancement

On command line when issuing a PING command, I would like to add an additional feature to allow time interval between multiple PING counts. This feature is already available in UNIX OSs. For example: Ping Example 1. Increase or Decrease the Time I...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under 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 ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Support for include/exclude lists in automount facility

We'd like the ability to select/exclude which systems are assigned automove=Y automounted file systems in the /etc/u.map parameter file.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

RACF batch utility to cleanup expired certificates

To Develop a RACF utility to cleanup/delete expired certificates in the RACF database with parameters specifying the expiration date & older.The date parameter specification/s can be a (-) minus 365 days from the current date. Just to elaborat...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance COPY command from TSO/ISPF command line

In the current scenario, when editing a PDS member, a COPY <member_name> can be issued in the command line to copy contents from another member inside the same PDS.The idea is to enhance COPY command in 2 ways:1. When editing member MEMBER1 ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 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

PDSE NOLOAD portion visibility from TSO/ISPF

The standard ISPF utilities in TSO/ISPF do NOT report on NOLOAD portions of PDSE's. This means that TSO/ISPF utilties and panels such as 'Data set Utility' do NOT provide a full and accurate Portrayal of the contents of load libraries and stored a...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Color the different file types in ISPF UDLIST

In ISHELL it is possible to maintain the colors of the different file types in a file list. For example yellow for Symlinks, red for Directories, green for regular files.It would be nice to have this feature in UDLIST too.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 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.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration