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Core Infrastructure

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SYMNAMES symbol usable as value of a FIXLEN

Allow a symbol to be specified for the value of FIXLEN in a PARSE statement
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 3 Not under consideration

Upgrade TSO STATUS command to support JES JOBGROUP

The TSO STATUS command is used to find the status of jobs previously submitted to JES. With z/OS 2.2, JES was enhanced with a new feature call JOBGROUPs. This feature allows jobs to be grouped together. Currently the STATUS command has very rudime...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

Serialization at dataset instead of VTOC for DSS DEFRAG

We use an alternative defrag solution today and are interested in vendor consolidation - using IBM's built in DSS tool would allow us to simplify our Mainframe environment.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

NMI support for OpenSSH SMF record type 119 94-98

We would like to collect SMF records for sftp 119 subtypes 94-98. We are currently using the NMI to collect SMF 119 records and report on them. Can we get these records via the NMI? Seems inconsistent to us to provide some records via the NMI and ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 3 Future consideration

UPDATE RACF APPCLU SESSKEY ENCRYPTION

o We are unable to connect JES2 NODES when SIGNON=SECURE is specified on systems secured by RACF and those secured by CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret. Nodes where RACF is in use on both NODES are connecting successfully albeit with a non-FIPS 140-2 comp...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Have the functionality (PS to PSE) added to the DSS product.

We are moving data using ADRDSSU from legacy systems without any advanced dataset functionality to systems that support EAVS and hardware compression. The inability to replace PSE datasets with PS datasets is causing the restore jobs to finish CC ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

3.4 allow use of individual qualifiers

The data set list in ISPF 3.4 allows the use of a slash character to represent the entire data set name. Likewise, there are times when I would like to refer to only one of the qualifiers in the data set name. For example, if the data set name is:...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Add module load point information to ISRDDN

When using the ISRDDN function to evaluate load module information, it is only the Entry Point Address (EPA) that is referenced... the Load Point is never really addressed. For example, when issuing the LOAD command, the "CSVQUERY results" pop-up ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.

Hello, z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

use milli-second time stamps in ISPF Gateway

To understand where ISPF Gateway spends most of its time while processing a request, we need a higher time-stamp resolution (milli-seconds is preferred) in the messages issued by ISPF Gateway.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration