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    Add YAML support to ISPF HILITE function

    The increased use of YAML in z/OS, this would be helpful for app programmers and systems programmers.
    4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Functionality already exists

    Use the IBM Ideas portal to report and monitor status of z/OS documentation RCF's

    Recent responses to a documentation omission message sent to the regular RCF email address (mhvrcfs@ibm.com) received a response that RCF's no longer normally receive any response from the documentation team(s). Users who have taken the trouble to...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

    Changing "Dataset Type" from PDS to PDSE during a Deployment operation in z/OSMF Software Management

    Using the CustomPac ISPF Dialogs, we previously had the ability to change the dataset type for PDS datasets shipped via ServerPac to be PDS/E. As zOS 2.5 is now shipped as a Portable Software Instance (PSI) and is installed via zOSMF Software Mana...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 4 Future consideration

    System SSL HTTP CRL request should understand all valid HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol responses

    At the moment System SSL describes the following requirement:"System SSL uses the HTTP/1.1 protocol to send the HTTP CRL request and requires an HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol response.The HTTP response must include a valid content-length field tha...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Future consideration

    Buffering log of NIP console

    If an IPL of a z/OS system gets stuck in the NIP phase there is only very limited information available on diagnosing the error. Usually it is only the 24 lines of output on the NIP console. If the messages describing the error roll out of the con...
    11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Not under consideration

    DFSMSdss COPY CONVERT PDS to PDSE V?

    Presently, ADRDSSU can only convert a PDS to PDSE Version 1. Would be prudent to be able to choose between PDSE Version 1 and Version 2; especially since IBM recommends Version 2 in most use cases.
    almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

    LP recommendations related messages showing on both observed and managed systems

    Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: In CPM, when using the option of sending recommendations to the observed system’s CFZCIM, customers could benefit from another message, which confirms this was written to CPOSERV’s Joblog too. ...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

    Management capabilities for CPM messages

    Based on a previous customer request for enhancement: Clients use other products to control Defined Capacities, which produce separate WTO’s when actions are taken, making the CPM messages to be superfluous, needlessly filling the CPOSERV’s Joblog...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Submitted

    Smart Control Block Visualizer

    Replace traditional “hex dump style” printing with an intelligent, structured, and human-readable representation of control blocks.
    3 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Needs more information

    Support Intrdr File Encoding header for all Submit Jobs requests

    The z/OSMF API for submitting jobs supports a “X-IBM-Intrdr-File-Encoding” header, which has the following limitation:> This header is effective only when the JCL for the job to be submitted is included in the HTTP request body. This header is ...
    3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

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