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Core Infrastructure

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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

Add Dataset support to the SDBM backend

Don't see that recomendation from https://ibmsecurity.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AMDS-I-334 that new RFE has been opened.But we're interested of same feature to handle racf dataset profiles from SDBM backend. z/OS 2.4 has added DATASET support to the R_A...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

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

SORT/ICETOOL statements for variable length records

Allow the coding of SORT / ICETOOL statements without having to add +4 to every position to account for the variable length RDW. This would require a new SORT option (perhaps VLRDW) to allow for both old and new method. Benefit: Easier to both cod...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Not under 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

CHECK(IBMUSS,USS_PARMLIB_MOUNTS) make MTAB updatable.

IBM Healthchecks are very good to follow, to avoid an outage. We use them a lot! But if a mount statement of a ZFS data set is wrongly defined in BPXPRMxx. The Healthcheck (IBMUSS,USS_PARMLIB_MOUNTS) complains with an exception. "ZFS NOT MOUNTED. ...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 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...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ISREMSPY should honour screensize

ISREMSPY is used to debug edit macros. However, for datasets with an LRECL>72, the simulated screen produced by ISREMSPY is limited to 72 columns, even when used on an 62 rows by 160 column display. It should be enhanced to honour the current s...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 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.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 0 Future consideration

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