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Core Infrastructure

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Full documentation of heap storage struc

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0317083229User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSLNGC07014Title: Full documentation of heap storage structure.Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : APLS UGPROJ : L...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

LE Callable Service to obtain 24-bit sto

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0424085051User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSLNGC08004Title: LE Callable Service to obtain 24-bit storage from AMODE(31) appsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROU...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Allow changes to LE STORAGE parms via CL

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0424085052User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSLNGC08005Title: Allow changes to LE STORAGE parms via CLERSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : APLS UGPROJ : LNGC...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Exception criteria options for LE SYSMDU

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1012071913User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSLNGC07008Title: Exception criteria options for LE SYSMDUMP RTOSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : APLS UGPROJ : ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

FTP server configuration display

Provide an ftp server command to display the current configuration. Same as "d tcpip,,n,config" only for the ftp server.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Change Health Checker facility in z/OSMF

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0313145836User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0313145836Title: Change Health Checker facility in z/OSMF Configuration Assistant to do a before and after comparisonSubmitted By: Richard D Davis/UK/IBMOriginator...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Add ability for VTAM to destroy and rebuild dynamically built TRLEs

VTAM should have the ability to destroy dynamically-built TRLEs and replace them with newly-built ones when a configuration change demands it.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Infoprint blank in recipient addresses

For sendmail to accept recipient addresses with blank we have to add the character " at the beginning and at the end of the recipient address. for example : "paris bp21 expl mf network"@bnpparibas.com works with sendmail. Our problem is that infop...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

rsh should accept parameter-orders in the same way as on z/OS 1.4 and earlier.

As described on PMR 08674,693,760, rsh command of z/OS 1.7 doesn't accept "rsh -l user_name server_name" because of the re-writing of rsh command, however it was accepted on z/OS 1.4 and earlier. Therefore, rsh command should change to accept the ...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the VARY TCPIP DROP Command to Include Outbound Connections

The implementation of MR0320076111 in z/OS 1.12 added the capability to issue a single VARY TCPIP,,DROP command to drop multiple connections at once. However it only does this for a listener socket(s) and any inbound connections associated with th...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration