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Core Infrastructure

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To reject or abend for incorrectly using same dataset for input and output

Have option to control (system level/step control) reject or abend for incorrectly using same dataset for input and output, when no sorting is performend, hence it risk to have inaccurate data. This will avoid developer wrongly coding caused data ...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

z/OS 3.1 SDSF and "FS - File systems OMVS" MOUNTPARM Truncated to 57 chars.

The z/OS OMVS MOUNTPARM: parameter can be up to 1024 characters long. Suggestion: 1. If not possible for SDSF to return the complete MOUNTPARM value up to 1024 then please tell this in the: SDSF Help Text panel ( F1 Help Key) Help-Text MOUNTPARM !...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

hide out IBM default FTPS and HTTPS servers in z/OSMF 'FTP Servers' plugin

Hello,it is not possible to delete or hide the list of IBM standard FTP Servers (e.g. for z/OSMF Incident Log plugin usage). The option for 'Remove' is greyed out for these IBM default FTP servers. I would prefer a 'Hide' option here to be able to...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

TASID - Make Open Source

Suggest IBM make TASID 'Open Source' code and place it on the CBT tape. As noted in the below IBM website, "This tool is available on an 'AS IS' basis" and "In z/OS 2.2, some functions do NOT operate correctly. Selecting option 4, Initiator Status...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

ICSF should allocate its DD cards after JES is up when started SUB=MSTR

Please enhance ICSF so that when we start it up SUB=MSTR it will eventually allocate it's DD card post JES starting up. The RACF address space exhibits this behavior today so it stands to reason it should be possible with ICSF.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Remove limitation of 1500 entries in D RRS,UREX

From an RRS perspective the D RRS,UREX command does not show any URs when the count exceeds the limit of 1500 entries. D RRS,UREX ATR624I 11.00.42 RRS UR EXCEPTION SYSTEM URID WAIT FOR * Data truncated. DISPLAY RRS work area exceeded This is a des...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

see if it is possible to fix hangs in apf and non apf tso and rexx scripts

TS014956323 Problem has been seen on both z/OS 2.4 and z/OS 2.5 and z/OS 3.1 and with either svc or linkage=system DEQ and takes from about 4 to 15 runs to recreate in batch rexx/uss.The recreation occurs with PGM=IKJEFT1A and we are executing an ...
6 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

BLKSize of 16KB is much less than TapeBlkSZLim of 256K

DFSMShsm only writes 16K-Blocks to Tape,both for Migration and Backup.Many of our files are greater ones, which would participate much of larger block sizes.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 7 Planned for future release

Enable sftp to work with z/OS datasets and with Text data

With the introduction of DSFS it is now very possible for users to use sftp to access z/OS datasets however since sftp only supports binary transfers that precludes using sftp for source code or data. Enabling sftp to access z/OS datasets directly...
6 months ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 6 Future consideration

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration