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Core Infrastructure

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Allow HSM automatic dump to DASD

HSM automatic dump currently only allows writing the full-volume dumps to tape. It should also support writing full-volume dumps to disk.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Simple nested JSON index navigating

It would be nice to locate an entry nested within JSON by passing a string qualifying steps to get to it. For example for JSON: {"name": "My Object", "history":[ {"type":"Edit", "user":{"uid":123, "name":"Steve"}, "time":"2023-09-22T08:25:43.5...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

64-bit Web Enablement Toolkit

Support being called from a 64-bit LE environment. Would need this for both HTTP enabler and JSON parser.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Way to extract sub-object of parsed JSON

We'd like a way to parse a large JSON file but then extract the JSON for a given entry handle. So like HWTJGVAL but works for an object and turns the address and length of the JSON representing that object. For example, for the sample JSON: {"name...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

GDKUTIL enhancement

GDKUTIL is an utility program to upload/download between MVS datasets and S3 cloud object storage. It seems that right now the data encryption is solely relying on S3 server side encryption. Another security best practice is to enable client side ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Future consideration

Would like to see messages IGGN307I and IEA712I made highlighted and non scrollable during IPL

It would prevent issues post IPL with missing LPA libraries
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Password Policy per user basis

Right now, we could set the following control globally. Inactive revoke, password minimum change interval Is it possible to set it down to the user level? There might be some use cases in a system that different user ID having different requiremen...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

PAVA0903-593 ARM policy TERMTYPE(SYSTERM)needed (Gerrit Bakker)

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: CN=Arlene Berchtold/OU=Poughkeepsie/O=IBMSubmitters Company: Workgroup Generated PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PAVA0903-593 ARM policy TERMTYPE(SYSTERM)needed (Gerrit Bakker)Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Cat...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 3 Future consideration

DFSMSdss RESTORE should not be checking for any source devices when IMPORT is specified

The DFSMSdss RESTORE command should not perform any checks for the source volumes when the IMPORT parameter is specified.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

DFHSM volume selection for CIDS allocation needs to check for contiguous space availability

This item requests DFHSM to check for enough contiguous space when selecting a volume for allocation of the CIDS. During the processing of the FRBACKUP command, one catalog information data set CIDS is created for each copy pool version. Each CIDS...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Not under consideration

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