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Core Infrastructure

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Provide PROCLIB display with ISRDDN

ISRDDN should provide a PROCLIB display, similar to LPA, APF, or LINKLIST, to display JES2 proclib information.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Future consideration

New cross reference function

In large configuration with many LCU defined on few boxes there is the possibility to misconfigure HCD and give to one physical LCU different definitions that could leave to problems described by OA63553. At the present time the only way we have t...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / HCD 5 Not under consideration

Add SORT command on panels to help in avoiding problems for apar OA63553

In large configuration with many LCU defined on few boxes there is the possibility to misconfigure HCD and give to one physical LCU different definitions that could leave to problems described by OA63553. Having the ability to sort by CUADD on pan...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Console view

When using z/OSMF console UI interface it is impossible to switch to the OPERLOG view when messages are arriving into the CONSOLE view. To be able to switch to the OPERLOG view we need to LOCK the console - back-out of the view /select console / a...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Improvement to EEDIAG,TEST,LIST=DETAIL command

The D NET,EEDIAG,TEST command with LIST=DETAIL sets an incrementing TTL to provide a list of routers in the path to the end-point similar to the IP traceroute command. It appears that the current code stops incrementing the TTL count if a router i...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under 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

PTHREAD library always emit error when SYSIN comes from SYSIN dataset and unconditionally opens SYSOUT

When our C++ application code make the first thread creation call to pthread_create() the language environment implementation unconditionally goes and opens the SYSIN and SYSOUT DDnames. Our application can, in most circumstances, already be readi...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 4 Not under consideration

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