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Core Infrastructure

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ONLY (O) Edit Primary Command

An ONLY function (exclude all lines except those meeting the search criteria) is a very common editing function. It is frequently one of the first edit macros developed when learning edit macros. Unfortunately, due to limitations with numbering mo...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 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...
10 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Parm to remove report lines from IXCMIAPU

Please add a PARM to IXCMIAPU so that it does not issue line breaks, page counts and report headers ADMINISTRATIVE DATA UTILITY: REPORT DATA TYPE = CFRM 06/12/2019 17:30:16 PAGE 4 ___________________________________________________________________...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

List available SSL/TLS Ciphers with info about use of Crypto Cards

In CICS communication (SSL/TLS) with ATM a Cipher is selected/negotiated. Please make a list of all ciphers with informations about which can run in the CryptoCard e.g. CEX6C (HW) to offload the usage of CPU, and which can only run using the norma...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 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...
10 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 ...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

Make &RACUID avail as RACF var (RACVARS) for any gen profile

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00023001User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GGSE4093002Title: Make &RACUID avail as RACF var (RACVARS) for any gen profileSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-029...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Encryption facility for z/OS Key management requirement

We are running z/OS 2.3 and we have Encryption Facility for z/OS (FMID HCF7740). We have a limited number of applications using the product at this time, but we would like to introduce it to more applications. There are a couple of factors limitin...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Future consideration

HOLDUNTL a relative date

When SCHEDULE HOLDUNTL has a date specified it requires an absolute date (MM/DD/YY or YYYY/DDDD). This request would allow a relative day: ({[ 'HH:MM' ] , [ '+N'' ]}), where N is the number of days after the submission to which the job will be hel...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Support the using of a DRVIPA within the sysplex for both source and destination VIPAs

There is the restriction of not using DRVIPA within the sysplex for both source and destination VIPAs. Basically it is possible to confige a DRVIPA within the sysplex for both source and destination VIPAs, which is eligible in some special cases. ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration