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Core Infrastructure

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Allow customer deployed Linux in zCX address space

Allow customer deployed Linux in zCX address space
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

ZOSMF submitting jobs should also be controlled by surrogat class

The started task of z/OSMF can submit jobs without being checked on having a permit on a profile in the surrogat class.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Underlying reason for save failure is written to the log but not displayed to the user

When saving a file/member for a workflow step (such as saving JCL for a workflow step), the underlying error is hidden from the user. The user must go to IZUG0.log to find the underlying reason. It would be good if the error dialog presented to th...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Update ISRDDN enqueue function to include SYSTEMS and not just LOCAL enqueue

ISRDDN ENQUEUE display only displays local enqueue information.Updating ISRDDN to be able to display SYSPLEX enqueues would make it conisistent with other ISPF services, such as QUERYENQ
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Enhance TSO TELNET command to be able to pass parameter 'Srcip'

Allow source IP parameter to be used with the TSO TELNET command, or an equivalent command/service.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Add Service Class to more RMF Records

RMF has always had serviceclass / workload Information in the 72 records. Now more and more records are added with job-Level Detail such as 74.2 XCF member activity and 77 Enqueue activity. To "connect" the jobnames from These records with workloa...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

Support Control Passthru for Up, Down, RFind and RChange

With z/OS 2.2 the ability to passthru Left and Right was provided using the CONTROL PASSTHRU service. This should be extended to support Up, Down, RFind and RChange.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Improve EDIT Macro Compare return code

The current ISPF Edit compare macro command does not provide a meaningful return code.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Support for (resolvable) variable to be transferred to Called Workflow

Within a Callable Step, the option exists to "Transfer variable values from this workflow to the called workflow". Currently, only variables labels that already have been established in a earlier step are able to be passed over to the called workf...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance BCPii Security so it is more Granular

Please enhance BCPii to have granular calls to RACF for each command issued. We're thinking something similar to the OPERCMDS class and how z/OS uses it.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 0 Future consideration

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