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Core Infrastructure

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ISPF: Return ZLPDSUDA on LMMFIND

This is a straight-up Request for Enhancement Headline: Set ZLPDSUDA in ISPF LMMFIND & LMMLIST services Description: The ISPF LMMDISP, LMMFIND, and LMMLIST services each optionally return a member statistics, setting around 28 different dialog...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

z/OS SDSF CONFIRM(ALWAYS) with ABORT choice by default

Hello, To prevent some misuse in SDSF about JOB purge with the action character "P" in front of a job, we try to customize the confirmation popup to avoid a too quick purge. To do that, in ISFPRM00, we added the CONFIRM(ALWAYS) parameter which is ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

Allow, or ignore, extra blanks in the dsadm createparm command

When using dsadm createparm if there is an extra space the command fails. example: fails: dsadm createparm -path /dsfs/txt/lbdyck.test -psmodel "dsorg(ps) recfm(FB) lrecl(80) blksize(0) tracks space(1,1)" works: dsadm createparm -path /dsfs/txt/lb...
4 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Delivered

Update SYSLOGD to support sending data via TCP

We have a requirement to send SYSLOGD data to another server but we need to send it via TCP and use ATTLS to encrypt the data. The current implementation only allows for sending via UDP and doesn't allow for a different port specification.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Support a connection timeout in the HTTP component of the Web Enablement Toolkit

Currently there are options in the HTTP component of the z/OS Web Enablement Toolkit to specify SEND and RECEIVE timeouts. Support for a CONNECTION timeout value would prevent waiting too long for connections that are not available or unreliable. ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 1 Delivered

Add GDG Extended Support to ISPF 3.2

Add the ability to specify GDG Extended keyword and define more than 255 GDG LIMIT when using ISPF 3.2 - Option V for Data Type Generation Data Group
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Delivered

Display the CATSYSIDs in LISTCONTROL OPTION specified in EDGRMMxx parmlib member.

Today there is no possibility to display the CATSYSIDs specified in EDGRMMxx parmlib member. The RMM LISTCONTROL OPTION subcommand shows only one of SET, NOSET or * (Asterisk) . As for all other settings the list of systems should be shown.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

rm -r protection when spanning multiple file systems

A user accidentally issued an rm -r .* * command from /The user was unaware that he did this. This deleted files across thousands of our USS file systems. There needs to be a warning message when this kind of destructive command is issued that spa...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Delivered

Enhance 'date' command to support Julian date conversion

Very often there is a need to convert a Julian date to regular-date and back. In other Unix/Linux version this can be done e.g. by commands like:date -d "2007-11-30" +%j. One can write a REXX scripts performing this conversion ,,, but much better ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Delivered

zosmf session_timeout for inactive sessions

As a security compliance we have a requirement to time out users/processes that have been inactive for a specific period of time.The SESSION_EXPIRE does not support INACTIVE session timeout handling without causing nuisance to active users.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

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