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Core Infrastructure

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Stop failing SMP/E process if duplicate entry in SELECT or EXCLUDE

When a SMP/E user has a duplicate entry in a SELECT list or EXCLUDE list or in both, the message GIM56401S ** UI53619 HAS ALREADY BEEN SPECIFIED ON EITHER THE SELECT OR EXCLUDE OPERAND. is issued and the SMP program terminates. A much better appro...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Allow DSS to produce easily transportable dumps

Currently DFDSS does not produce backup or dump output in a form that can be easily transmitted across the network with normal basic FTP clients (e.g. Linux, Windows) and servers. The dump normally has to be further processed by TRSMAIN or XMIT be...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Enabling CF R/W data structures access from zCX containers/OCP on zCX

As part of a mainframe application modernization project, the customer (that's me) aims to adopt the Application Centric pattern. This involves rewriting certain portions of the application from Cobol to Java and deploying them on zCX thereby capi...
8 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

RACF command LISTDSD DSNS not working for master catalog

Currently RACF is designed to exclude the master catalog dataset name from LISTDSD DSNS output under "CATALOGUED DATA SETS AFFECTED BY PROFILE CHANGE".
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Add ISPF Paste DIsplay to allow Selection

Enhance the ISPF Paste command to support a Display (or Select) option to display a list of all available clipboards to select from.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Allow GDK APIs to run on zIIP

Please consider allowing the GDK APIs (primarily gdkget and gdkwrite with a streaming receive/send exit) to be called in with some ability to offload to a zIIP processor. I believe the z/OS Web Enablement Toolkit only supports task (TCB) mode, but...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

config drift for SMS/ACS similar to IODF

Similar to IODF, when it activates, it displays what is being changed... we need to see similar when an SMS is activated. This helps in config drift procedure for audit requirement. Currently we have a rexx procedure to compare before & after ...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

OAM Object support >2GB

OAM Large Object support should be enhanced to support objects with a size larger than 2GB per object.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

LE to allow UNIX System Services to interrupt an LE program utilizing Pause/Release

LE to allow UNIX System Services to interrupt an LE program utilizing Pause/Release. System: LE on z/OS USS Actor: SAP support experts or any other USS C code developer with the necessity to debug the stack trace of a process SAP support experts w...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

zOSMF workflows enable approvers for all flow types

we are looking to utilize zOSMF and workflows to automate some of our processes. There is an approver option, however this is only valid with the 'Run this step as user ID:' option and then only via cloud provisioning. We would like the approver o...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration