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Core Infrastructure

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Preserve High Level Qualifiers when BCPii issues a Dump

Do not overwrite the first parm in DYNDUMP! Default is *USERID, but if an installation has set a different HLQ, leave that HLQ alone! You can overwrite the rest of the DYNDUMP options, but NEVER the HLQ that is set.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 0 Future consideration

SPC's _24malc() and _4kmalc() for Metal C

Given SPC is stabilized, would be nice if the 2 SPC RTL functions that are not tied to SPC environment management were available in the Metal C RTL, namely _24malc() and _4kmalc(), rather than having to use __asm() to embed STORAGE macro calls. I ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Metal C Run-time Library 0 Future consideration

Request to add timeout functionality to synchronous binds

Our client would like to put a timeout parameter in on the z/OS client side and are trying to understand if that's possible. They are using GLD.SGLDHDRC(LDAP) to compile their C routine and are wondering if there is anything equivalent to the LDAP...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

API to interrogate global CEA settings

CEA API to be extended to provide a query function which returns the currently-active global settings - that is, those configured via CEAPRMxx parmlib member. For example: TSOASMGR ( RECONSESSIONS(0) RECONTIME(00:00:00) )
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 0 Future consideration

Provide a less FORCEful command to deallocate PFIDs.

We recently had an issue with zEDC, see TS004212422, where we needed to deallocate and allocate a PFID from use. As documented in sg24-8259, we had to use CF PFID(xxxx),OFFLINE,FORCE to deallocate the PFID. In my 40 year career, commands with FORC...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Handle LamAlef character when converting from z/OS to Windows

There is a special handling for LamAlef character when converting from Visual (zOS) to Implicit (Windows) and vise versa. The LamAlef character is expanded into two characters (Lam and Alef) and uses the spaces in the source buffer for its expansi...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Add EMAIL Keyword to ISPF Panel VER Statement

Please add the ability to validate email addresses via the ISPF panel VER statement.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

OAEP support for RSA PKCS11 encrypt/decrypt CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV

Require CSFPPKS/CSFPPKV to support OAEP padding. Currently only the older format padding 1.5 is supported
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Future consideration

Support for VIEW of the ISPF log

In dialog test, panel ISPYXD1 currently supports an option 5, "Browse ISPF log". But browse is not as versatile as View. When using the View service, the dialog developer can use exclude and find commands to filter which lines are displayed, makin...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Ability to group members of PDS for doing one common action

Currently, ISPF does not offer an option to mark the group of members and then choose the action for the selected members on such panels as ISRUDA1 (Option 3.1) and ISRUDSM (Option 3.4 and then select a PDS). It would be very handy to have the sel...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

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