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Core Infrastructure

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ISR@PRIM - Session - Add OS Level

Add 'OS Level' when a user displays 'Session' information from the ISPF Menu (ISR@PRIM). With z/OS 2.1 and above, IBM has introduced/defined a new system symbolic to display the Operating System Level (&OSLEVEL) For example: Menu Utilities Com...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

Allow greater flexibility in Certificate Name Filters

The Certificate Name Filters available under RACF today are very rigid in their matching process. As a short-hand, essentially one can consider the name filter as an exact search string match that the certificate subject must contain exactly. This...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

WTO enhancement to confirm the unplanned hyperswap test through the command “SETIOS HYPERSWAP”

The command “SETIOS HYPERSWAP” doesn’t have a WTO confirmation prior to run the unplanned hyperswap test. So, this RFE is to request an enhancement/implementation of a WTO message confirmation to prompt the user to confirm or not the unplanned hyp...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Not under consideration

Preview mode for Policy Agent

“Northern Trust wants a “preview mode” for Policy Agent. They would like Policy’s to have the ability to preview what would happen if this policy was active. In preview mode, if this policy was active, this would have happened “x” number of times....
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Ability to customise z/OSMF Software Management Deployments to add additional jobs

Currently the jobs generated to perform a deployment are fixed. We need to be able to customise 'Deployment' so we can add our own JCL at any stage of the deployment checklist. This is required so we can make z/OSMF deployment perform all the step...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

SMFLIMxx processing needs to be enhanced.

SMFLIMxx processing needs to be enhanced to allow for a REGION statement match to indicate that no other REGION statements should be processed.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

DFSMSHSM LIST DATASET with Cloud Object Name

We are able to get a list of the Cloud Containers / Buckets, migrated data sets, and listing of the Contain objects using the following: LIST CLOUD(cloudname) LIST LEVEL(x) LIST CLOUD(cloudname) CONTAINER(containername) Using these lists, it is st...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

DFSMS read-only variable for disposition parameter

DFSMSrmm EXPDT retention method can exploit management classes to set expiration dates, can retain data sets based on catalog status, etc., but there are some retention settings that were previously implemented with the VRSEL retention method that...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Create a new code page in order to support latest Spanish language changes; namely, using ll and ch as two different chars

We have found a weird behaviour using PL/I REGEX function. After opening a support case, IBM team become aware code page needs some updates. However, it may be easier to build a new one, picking those changes.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Allow SMS to process DD DUMMY

We would like to eliminate all esoterics from HCD and thus allow SMS to be the sole source for esoterics. There is at least one circumstance where this is not a transparent change and that is when using the DUMMY parameter. For example if you have...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

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