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Full FTP Support for PDSE

FTP should support the transfer of PDS to a PDSE load library. There is no potential loss of data to be incurred from this in the way a PDSE to a PDS would be impacted. Currently this is not supported.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Allow usage of z/OSMF JWT tokens by multiple sessions using the same user ID

We are using new APIs to obtain JWT tokens (/zosmf/services/authenticate) from our automated scripts that use other z/OSMF REST APIs with the obtained. After the script completes, it calls the DELETE method to invalidate the token that it obtained...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add LDAP configuration option to restrict specific IP addresses from connecting to the server

As it stands currently there is no easy way for an LDAP administrator to prevent/block specific IP addresses from connecting to the server. The admin must rely on other products like TCP, we recently found out that NETACCESS is not a viable soluti...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 2 Future consideration

Message suppression of ANTP8807I

GDPS Global Mirror generates high volume of ANTP8807I messages which increases the syslog size. Please introduce a way to suppress them. Thanks.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 2 Future consideration

Provide a way to programmatically determine if the RACF database is locked.

RACF database maintenance routinely updates the RACF database. When IRRUT400 is running and has the database locked during database backups, this can cause problems with these updates. If it can be determined if the database is locked, the updates...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

REXX SAY should use PUTLINE

REXX Say should use PUTLINE when under TSO so that the results can be trapped using outtrap.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Future consideration

Make location of pids for communications server daemons configurable

Serveral of the CS daemon pids (e.g. /etc/syslog.pid, /tmp/pagent.pid) arewritten to directories /etc or /tmp and the location can't be changed. We think /etc is a configuration directory and no daemon should write to it. To /tmp everybody has wri...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Need -w option on z/OS Unix grep command

Update z/OS Unix grep command with the -w option. Here's the failing command being sent from a non-Z Linux host to z/OS Unix for execution: grep -sqwF "$key" "$keyfile" Here's the definition of -w that I have seen: "-w, --word-regexp Select only t...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

Unable to cancel recall request during shutdown

During shutdown of DFHSM on a Lpar (using CRQ), this DFHSM can be processing a recall request for a very large dataset causing DFHSM not to shutdown until the dataset is recalled. We must be able to intervene in a DFHSM instance that is shutting d...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

RACF: Avoid RACF Abend for a RACF TSO Comand due a missing Dynamic Parse Table

Currently RACF TSO commands (like LD, short for LISTDSD) can fail with a RACF abend if RACF "Dynamic Parse Table Initialization" either did not yet run or failed to run.RACF should be changed to return a meaningful return code (instead of abending...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

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