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Core Infrastructure

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Allow volumes/devices to be marked online during LOADxx processing.

This may not be the correct component. Customer is requesting a process, possibly in the LOADxx member, that allows them to manipulate the status of I/O devices defined in the IODF dynamically at IPL time prior to their being needed. If the IODF m...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future 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

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

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

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

Allow GDKUTIL input to be provided by a parm when called by a program

Might GDKUTIL accept a parameter when called by a program? Where the first three words point to areas that have the same information as those three DD statements provide? EG: WORD1 -> UPLOAD PROVIDER(S3CLOUD) CONVERT WORD2-> /johnh-21st-test...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF zERT-Plugin - Database access privileges

We created a service id to be used as zERT Network Analyzer database user ID as described in the document (https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/erin-zhang1/2020/04/03/zert-best-practices-sorting-out-the-different-zos ) ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Option to return all properties of an (archived) workflow via z/OSMF REST Api

The REST Api to get properties of an (archived) workflow returns only a subset of all existing values in the /var/zosmf/data/app /<workflow> files. Provide an additional option on the query parameter "returnData" to fetch all data. - E.g. "a...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Regular expression match length in ISPF EDIT/VIEW

Provide a means of extracting the string matched by an EDIT/VIEWregular expression.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 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

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