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Core Infrastructure

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Permit zOSMF Software Deployment to initialize online target volume

zOSMF Software Deployment's "initialize target volume?" option, when opted, demands the target volume be offline. This requires manual intervention in the deployment of a software instance before and after the ICKDSF/INIT job to vary the device of...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Initialize DLLs upon program startup

All global variable initialization should happen for all DLL's that are implicitly loaded in an application before 'main' is invoked.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

CSSMTP NonDelNotifications without embedded message body

A user tried to send a message containing 84MB of data (several times, because he did not get any feed back). According to CSSMTP's design the original message of 84MB was included into the notification, which was denied by the target server becau...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Have z/OS C support -qascii options properly

Trying to use the -qascii compile option, facilities like printf print in ASCII on my TSO OMVS terminal - do not display the text properly - they display the stuff in ASCII. I have to do additional work to get this to work - Or issue the command p...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

SMF record is written when ACCESS is unsuccessfull for JESJOBS Class

RACF drives an authorization check in the JESJOBS class for the resourcename SUBMIT<.execution node><.jobname><.user ID>. This is a LOG=NOFAIL REQUEST=AUTH, which means that if the submitting user is not authorized to this resour...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Enhance type 80s for failed ALTUSER commands

The type 80 event codes for failed ALTUSER commands should be enhanced so that I can tell for sure using SMF data why the ALTUSER command failed. Specifically:-Was ALTUSER failed because of SETROPTS?---Which specific SETROPTS rule failed the passw...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Add DFSMShsm RECYCLE for Cloud Objects

An enhancement to DFSMShsm RECYCLE to consolidate containers with a few objects to the "active" container or a specific container for consolidated objects. DFSMShsm creates cloud containers to store objects using the default syntax of SYSARC.<H...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

SF line command should work for data set aliases

When you display a data set alias in the ISPF option 3.4 data set list and issue the SF line command, you get message: ISRU006 Not real data set name - The selected option cannot process an alias data set name. The messages and codes manual does n...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request for the NETSTAT TTLS Command

There are certain environmental options that are not visible within an ATTLS Group such as the number of worker threads, CELAAUTH environments, and the count of queued work elements. This causes us to have situations where we are forced to take a ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Provide option to check update access before View or Edit

ISPF should provide an option to check whether a user has UPDATEaccess to a data set before allowing View or Edit.
about 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

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