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Core Infrastructure

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TSO/E: WAIT Option for ALLOCATE Command

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0625114615User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE015927Title: TSO/E: WAIT Option for ALLOCATE Command - All DISPositionsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Control the number of notices that ACCOU

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1117112412User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE11025Title: Control the number of notices that ACCOUNT/SYNC createsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS U...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

TSO TEST LIST subcommand invalid instruc

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1202104953User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE016488Title: TSO TEST LIST subcommand invalid instruction handling.Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF IPADR Group and sort

z/OSMF1) Ip groups are not sorted by ip-adr2) Ip groups should be part of other ip grpups (group th group)
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

ipsec FilterMatches reset

customer selected counter reset for FilterMatches counter.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ipsec -f display using wildcard and ip information

Ipsec command can only use full qualified names without wildcard
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Comms Server IP and SNA Display Disconnect

A telnet LU pool can be exhausted without being able to tell from VTAM displays if the telnet server has no DEFAULTAPPL or USSTCP coded. The connection failure message on the client is quite generic and doesn't help identify the cause of connectio...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Print Workflow in landscape format

Currently the "Print Workflow" functionality is primarily intended for portrait format use.Especially for large tables it might be very helpful to be able to print in landscape format.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide diagnostic aide in ISPF TEST to see VDEFINE definition used for a variable

During development and problem diagnosis, it is discovered that a variable has incorrect content (shorter than expected, typically). ISPF TEST option 3 is used to see the content during the diagnosis effort to isolate the problem. If I could see h...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

incoming traffic monitor

i want to monitor all incoming/outgoing tcpip traffic in my z/os system.I want a light weight (i.e., not a trace) monitor so that it can run all the time.I imagine it as a monitor that writes details to SMF records.Then I can post-process the SMF ...
about 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration