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HTTP/HTTPS Protocol Enabler permit double quotes in cookies

The HTTP/HTTPS enabler needs to be more lenient with cookie values that contain double quotes. RFC 6265 section 4.1 does state that DQUOTES are not permitted in the Set-Cookie response header but then section 5.2 documents a more permissive algori...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Provide "MOVE" option to IEBCOPY /SHARE Requirement SSMVSS13010-Priority=3.7

Provide an option for IEBCOPY that deletes the members that are sucessfully copied to another PDS(E). "MOVE" is my suggestion keyword as that is the same function used to do this with ISPF.(opened per SHARE REQ-SSMVSS13010)
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

SMP CSI - Global & Target zone - Sysmods Receive/Apply - Reporting/Audit

There's multiple people who perform the receive/apply etc. processing against the SMP/E CSI's and sometime it's an ask to go back say about 3 months back to find out who received/applied the sysmod, so I thought since CSI is KSDS i could certainly...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Extend CEEENTRY to support Debug Tool "Delayed Debugging"

Actually Language Environment Assembler Programs do not support Debug Tools Delayed (or Deferred) debugging due to the fact that the CEEENTRY macro does not register for "New Program Entry Point Event" as is done for LE Enabled COBOL, PLI and C/C+...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Enhance IAZ0543I informational message

Any application doing a socket call to bind or connect to a IP address, or to get a port number from the TCPIP stack during startup can fail with LE's error message "EDC8116I Address Not Available" for the errno. It's up to the application to prov...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA - Install Multiple - add Prologue comment capability

The Install Multiple feature is fantastic but lacks the ability to add a comment to the installed configuration prologue.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Permit zOSMF Software Deployment to initialize online target volume

zOSMF Software Deployment's "initialize target volume?" option, when opted, demands the target volume be offline. This requires manual intervention in the deployment of a software instance before and after the ICKDSF/INIT job to vary the device of...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

request for a utility to copy from USS to MVS GDG

Request for a utility to copy files from USS to Z/OS MVS side
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Add DFSMShsm RECYCLE for Cloud Objects

An enhancement to DFSMShsm RECYCLE to consolidate containers with a few objects to the "active" container or a specific container for consolidated objects. DFSMShsm creates cloud containers to store objects using the default syntax of SYSARC.<H...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

ISMF / Naviquest dasd list device type

Currently ISMF / Naviquest when generating a dasd list for device type for any 3390 device greater than a mod-9 as mod-9. I know that the reason ISMF shows all the volumes as 3390-9 is because there really is no such device as a 3390 mod27 or mod5...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 3 Future consideration

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