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Core Infrastructure

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SRCHFOR within SDSF

ISPF allows the use of a SRCHFOR primary command from the data set list. The command will search for text within each data set in the list and identify which data sets contain the text. SDSF should support a SRCHFOR command to search the job steps...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 5 Not under consideration

Keep owner of .sh_history on shell initialization

On shell initialization the .sh_history in the home directory is recreated (with the previous content) and the owner is set to the current UID, that started the process. This leads to problems, if the user changed his UID (e.g. switched to UID=0) ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

Message & SMF record needed when RACDCERT automatically replaces / deletes a certificate

When adding a certificate to RACF that qualifies to replace an existing certificate, a message and SMF record is needed indicating that this took place. For example : "Certificate with label xxx was replaced by this certificate <with label yyy&...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Need support for AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) when using CDA

We are attempting to use CDA to write to an AWS S3 bucket. We had initial setup issues but resolved them. We were trying to request some information from the client about obtaining the SECRET KEY, and were told that process was not allowed because...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Allow filtering out data sets with unsupported allocations

For example, allow ignoring PDS data sets with "0" directory blocks. When the option is enabled, such data sets would be reported and the overall return code would be set to "4" / Warning rather than error "8" .
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Not under consideration

Add SMF119AP_TTStatus to SMF119 Subtype 1 Connection Init

Add the field SMF119AP_TTStatus to the SMF 119 Subtype 1 Connection Initialization record. This field was already added to the subtype 2 - termination record, but should also exist in the init record. This information is known to the system at con...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

syntaxcheck

We would like to request extend syntaxcheck by including 'PARM(...)' checking also when syntaxcheck for bpxprm is executed.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

During zOSMF upgrade of zOS add the ability to connect Old Usercat to New Mastercat

For as long as Serverpac has been available (and maybe even before) when doing a zOS upgrade I create a New Master catalog and connect an old User Catalog to it which contains datasets that start with SYSINST in it. SYSINST is used for Serverpac d...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Add USERID/JOBNAME to USS BPXO058I + BPXF274I msgs

This request is to add userid/jobname to the USS mount failure message (BPXF274I) and the output of D OMVS,MF (BPXO058I). Mount failure message in SYSLOG: BPXF274I FILE SYSTEM OMVS.ZFS.SOMEFS 031 FAILED TO MOUNT. RETURN CODE = 00000079, REASON COD...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

DSS should support more entries in list (Msg ADR137E applies)

DSS issues message ADR137E when more than 255 entries are specified in an inline INCLUDE list (and EXCLUDE list). Specify more than this and you need extra work to add a FILTERDD or use more than one DUMP command. This seems to be a completely arb...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration