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Core Infrastructure

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zOSPT - Ability to refresh/synch all XML files from GUI (CP&M - Template refresh)

We were provided an "ExternalVariables.xml" file by IBM that included updates to validation variables for our environment. After we replaced the file in our USS directory we refreshed the Template via the zOSMF/PT GUI, but it did not pick up the c...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

zOS PT - Support for a 6 character APPLID prefix

Currently, zOSPT only supports a 5 character prefix followed by * in SNA application range definition within Network Configuration Assistant. To work around this we changed the CICS workflow provided by zOSPT to use the software service instance n...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Want to improve parameter FREEVOL on DD statement

My customer wants to improve the parameter FREEVOL on the statement DD, to release all volumes of a multivolume tape file. To permit an other JOB2 that will be use the same multivolume tape file, to obtain volume serial as son as JOB1 release the ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

ISPF Edit Alert Editing File With More Than 999999 Records

When editing a file greater than 999999 lines, a warning should appear to alert the user. This might take the form of a ==MSG> line, or a ISPF short and/or long message.
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

VTAM ATCCON SYNTAX CHECK REQUEST

Citigroup is looking for VTAM ATCCON SYNTAX checking command/mechanism.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

PARSER needs to be able to handle other Whitespace characters

There are times when we have engineers cutting and pasting things into the configurations. Due to translation issues sometimes pasting from an app (Word or Onenote) gets translated to other white space characters. We have had multiple issues over ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide syslogd isolation by jobnames for AT-TLS Applications

Provide ability for syslogd isolation for AT-TLS defined Applications to maintain their Jobnames for use in syslogd logs. Currently, all AT-TLS Applications fall under JOBNAME=TCPIP.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

es_ES.ISO8859-15 requested

We need locale es_ES.ISO8859-15.Many different locales are shipped with z/OS as described on ' z/OS® XL C/C++ Programming Guide', 'Compiled locales' section:http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.cbcpx01/loccomp.h...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

A new paramenter to automatically throttle the amount of DVE requests to be processed based upon a user's region spec.

Please make a change to introduce a new parameter for DEVMAN to automatically throttle the amount of requests to be processed based upon a user's region specification.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Output field in a Naviquest sample job

I am trying to run some naviquest reports from the SYS1.SACBCNTL(ACBJBAIX) sample. This is a Storage Group report that is using ISMF. I would like to get the Description field but it doesnt seem that this is available. The Description is listed in...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

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