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Additional Information needed in VTOC Summary Display

In ISPF 3.4 one can Display the VTOC summary by using the Option "V".When using EAV volumes, it is not possible to evaluate the usage of the cylinder managed space distinct from the track managed space. there are values for- full volume size in tr...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Enhance z/OS IP Filtering so that rules can be defined to control access to ports that containers in zCX are listening on

Currently z/OS IP filtering only allows rules to be defined to control access to the TCPIP address that a zCX Instance uses. In a zCX instance, we can run a number of docker containers, each listening on different TCPIP Ports. Each of these contai...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

Tape volume output on UIM should contains DSNAME of dumped files

I use UIM exit to keep some information during a DFDSS DUMP function. During DUMP process, on UIM exit, i can have only information about the ddname and volser where the DUMP file created by dfdss resides. Now, with UIM exit there is no way to hav...
12 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF workflows and NCA to resolve system symbols

Currently z/OSMF does not resolve system symbols for tasks such as workflows and network configuration assistant, despite having the capability as described in the APAR PH41196. It would be very important that these features automatically resolve ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Add connection pooling support to the web enablement toolkit

We would like to have a connection option that could be specified by using the HWTHSET service. This option would allow applications to enable connection pooling. We are already taking advantage of similar functionality on CICS where we are using ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

New function related to the MVS SWAP command(dynamic device reconfiguration (DDR))

When a TS7700 tape cluster is requested to enter Service Mode, the SWAP command is a needful function. IBM invented the TS7700 Control Unit Initiated Reconfiguration (CUIR) functions years ago. The intention was to assist and automate as much a...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

JCL IF statement support for system symbols

If the JCL IF statement supports system symbols, the same JCL could be submitted on multiple systems/LPARs without modification, resulting in a different set of steps being executed based on the value of a system symbol. e.g. The following step wo...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Add BLOCK COMMANDS to JES

I want to be able to issue block commands in JES output. Sometimes we have to manually clear output and I have to issue P on each output. Even if I copy/paste the column of Ps, there are still many screens to paste. I want to be able to use: //p //p
about 2 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Functionality already exists

Allow IP Address binding for PORTRANGE statements

Currently it is only possible to use IP Address binding on PORT statements and not PORTRANGE statements. For a number of application (eg. DB2) where one Server listens on multiple ports that should only be accessed over a particular IP Address, cu...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Basic/Large Format Dataset Encryption min LRECL and Blocksize option

Allow customers the option of bypassing encryption of basic/large format datasets if they do not meet the minimum LRECL requirements
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

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