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Core Infrastructure

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ISPF Regular Expressions to work in BROWSE

Add regular expression functionality to ISPF BROWSE in zOS v2.1 and up.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

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

DFSMS RMM RM VRSEL

With RM EXPDT, only the first volume in the SET needs to be changed and all volumes in the SET are updated and RETAINBY SET is maintained. . However, with RM VRSEL, if you were to update the volume via RMM ispf dialog(panels), another panel will b...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future 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

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

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

Support RECORG 'FS' in DFSMS Data Class Construct

Modify the DFSMS Data Class construct to support Record Organization value of 'FS' for Unix System Services zFS file system.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Not under consideration

z/OS EZATMAIL output class configuration option

We would like to have the output class for EZATMAIL set as a configuration option. Currently output class A is hardcoded and there is no way to change it.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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