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Add Limited Support Date to z/OSMF Software Management Product Information File (PIF)

Currently, the support date range is described by the following two dates in the z/OSMF Software Management Product Information File: GADate (support begin date)EOSDate (support end date) Some ISVs have an additional support tier e.g.: Full suppor...
10 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Please Support SQL (Db2) highlighting in ISPF Editor

As a DBA i use a lot of SQL's and it would be very nice to have an SQL highlighting in ISPF Editor - this also helps to detect misspelling errors.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Planned for future release

Allow the same file name (indirectly volser cataloged) to be mounted to different mountpoints in a shared fileysystem

The ability to mount the same name filesystem (indirectly cataloged) to different version mountpoints would simplify deployment for me.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Enhance SDSF Log Read Options

Please provide an option to filter for specific messages when reading the log. ISFLOGSTARTDATE works to set a starting date with ISFLOGSTOPDATE setting the ending date for the search. Having something like ISFLOGMSG option to limit the results to ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Avoid manual link creation to /bin/env for Node.js

During the installation of Node.js a manual creation of the symlink "ln -s /bin/env /usr/bin/env" is advised.We try to avoid manual changes to the /usr directory provided by IBM.The link could be provided by IBM in the z/OS root filesystem or the ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

ACEROJOB in IDGACERO not filled for HSM recall, IDGACSSC exit

We are using IGDACSSC SMS exit for retrieving information about the recalls done by HSM. During the recalled data set allocation our IGDACSSC module gets control and we read the IGDACERO control block. The ACEROJOB variable is blank for recall (we...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF - Support for symbols in query processing for MVS datasets and USS files

We would like to be able to send requests to z/OSMF, through the Zowe CLI component, using symbols in MVS dataset names and USS filenames, such as the symbol &SYSUID, but any symbol known to the z/OS environment, (confer the list of symbols vi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Enhance System SSL to support Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN)

We have written a HTTPS server using the gsk_secure_socket_* family of functions.This server is part of a product used by many customers.HTTP/2.0 uses Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN), which is a TLS extension.Therefore, in order for ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / SSL 2 Not under consideration

Be able to configure SCRNAME for common panels instead of using internal names such as ISFPCU4

I can use SWAPBAR to display the sessions I have, but it displays names like ISFPCU4. I can set the screen name using SCRNAME eg SCRNAME SDSF, but I do not want to do this for every session I start. It would be good to be able to get the names se...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Provide an SVC 26 catalog locate user exit

Many vendors have SVC 26 'hooks' or have used SVCUPDTE to change the location of the SVC 26 processing routine. Providing a front end pre SVC 26/Locate and a back end end post SVC26/Locate fully documented and dynamic exit would help vendors and r...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

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