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Provide option for open() and fopen() to set the CCSID of a newly created file

Support a new environment variable that would make LE's runtime open() and fopen() functionsset the attribute of a newly created file to a given CCSID. This environment variable could be named something like _EDC_NEW_FILE_CCSID. If set, for exampl...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Need ISPF sample exit cleanup

Hello, In SC19-3619-01 p.234 there is a pointer to a sample panel exit named ISPPXMNX in ISP.SISPSAMP. This sample exit appears to be assembler generated from a PL/X exit and is essentially unreadable. It seems to us that as an example, this is un...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Create SMF records and batch reports when data sets or members are referenced, updated, deleted or added

To provide functionality that ISVs provide for audit tracking of specified libraries and members. Create SMF data that contains the following information: 1) Date 2) Time 3) Library 4) Volume 5) PDS or PDSE Member name 6) User id 7) Program 8) Typ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 2 Not under consideration

Mount improvement with multi-volume, multi-unit allocation

Prologue: I think this is an issue that needs improvement. I can't find a solution that exists in z/OS - if it does please let me know during discussion of the requirement. I'm posting in MVSE because I believe Allocation belongs to MVSE not MVSS,...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Not under consideration

Implement JCL parameter that only considers GP time

In JCL the TIME parameter is used to limit the CPU time of jobs. Originally used to limit CPU times to save costs and find looping jobs. Through the introduction of Java this parameter will "misbehave" or leads to misunderstanding. Those jobs will...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

DFDSS DUMP to have options to process HSM migrated datasets

Users have asked me to raise this issue that they would like DFDSS to be able to dump HSM migrated datasets - possibly by recalling them with NOWAIT, or even by performing some kind of COPYDUMP process directly from the migration volume
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

IARV64 macro to return guard area

We use the IARV64 REQUEST=LIST macro to list all HVCommon memory objects. If you calculate the size of the memory objects using the V64WAEND64 and V64WASTART64 addresses returned from the IARV64 macro, it is possible for those numbers to be off be...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Not under consideration

determine file size when viewing workstation file

ISPF and its workstation agent should be changed so that they can determine the size of the workstation file being viewed and allocate a sufficiently large z/OS work data set to avoid the out-of-space condition.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Support insecure mode in the Web Enablement Toolkit for SSL connections

The curl program provides insecure mode that bypasses verification of certificates during an SSL connection and allows the connection to proceed. This is not ideal in a production environment but very useful during application development when sel...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Add new DFSMS Flag in SSSA1 to support zSecure

zSecure module CFCOLL is calling DFSMS and writing logrec records for IGDCNSAQ when there is no error. DFSMS Development have suggested that they could provide an enhancement to provide a new flag in SSSA1 for callers to tell them if they need to ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

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