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Core Infrastructure

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GDPS Monitoring of Path Availability to Metro Mirror secondary Devices

Availability of channel paths to Metro Mirror secondary devices is crucial in the context of a GDPS HyperSwap. Currently it is possible even with a GDPS planned HyperSwap to swap from devices connected via 8 paths to devices connected via only 1 p...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 7 Future consideration

ISPF and USS are applications that should be consistent in their ENQ behavior since they edit and browse datasets. Expecting DSFS to handle dataset ENQs like ISPF.

With Open Enterprise Foundation, using vim (with DSFS) to browse and edit datasets should be a similar experience as when using ISPF.Dataset ENQs with consistent messages would be expected.
4 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

need CEEOPT64 for amode64 environments

allow applications that have amode31 and amode64 environments to be able to read options specific to their environment. For example existing CEEOPTS be used by amode24/31 applications and CEEOPT64 be processed by amode64 environment
about 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Provide a REXX API to EzNoSQL

There is a wealth of REXX applications on z/OS, many utilized under ISPF, that would benefit from this capability. REXX is also a fantastic, no compile, proof-of-concept/prototype language that can be used to validate a concept. Having this API wo...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 1 Future consideration

Add REVOKE in FACILITY password reset authorities

Enhance the authority associated with FACILITY resource IRR.PASSWORD.RESET and those prefixed IRR.PWRESET to allow users to REVOKE an ID within the existing scope of authority of these resources. These FACILITY resources allow users to RESUME and ...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Enhance zsh to support tagged shell scripts

In order to increase compatibility and to be able to reuse existing scripts, the zsh should also be able to execute tagged scripts.
9 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

RMF Spreadsheet Reporter: remove dependency on RepIntStr for RepTrdStr to obtain updated CF data

With the current design of the 'RepTrdStr' tab, users have no idea on why CF data is missing or CF structures not appear in the available list if they do not first use the 'RepIntStr' to access the data. It will be helpful to make this implicit fo...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Planned for future release

z/OS with HSM and DB2 backup/restore utilities

Perform backup system alternate copy pool with many pools
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

SDSF panel CFS doesn't show primary duplexed structures

The CFS SDSF panel can be very useful when it comes to checking upon CF structures allocation. Whenever we have to start a new CFRM policy either for moving structures or migrating CF images we use it to check the placement of the structures after...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

IO Timing Facility - Page Devices Support

We previously submitted an RFE for I/O Timing Facility (IOT) Page devices support.RFE : https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=49685 When we submitted this RFE, we expected the system to enter the non-restartable...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

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