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Core Infrastructure

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Provide option to specify time zone for all z/OSMF logs

Provide a configuration parameter to set the time zone so that the time in the IZUG0.log and many other logs are in sync with the time in many other software and SYSLOG.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Enhance SYSDSN to work on GDG generations

The CLIST SYSDSN command does not work on GDG bases or generations. It would be desirable if it worked on them.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Future consideration

DSFS to release enqueues in a timely manner

DSFS holds excl enqueues on datasets for minutes at a time.
10 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Add invoked omvs command to 3.17 command results display

Under ISPF 3.17 one can, if enabled, issue OMVS commands and have the results appear in ISPF Browse or View. It would be very helpful to add to the display the full command that was issued. This is especially helpful if the results are printed/cop...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Display tagging information for files on z/OS UNIX Directory List ISPF applications.

ISPF applications File Manager HFS Browse/Edit and Udlist (3.17) should display the tagging information like a ls -lT shell command. Example: t IBM-1047 T=on t ISO8859-1 T=on I'm using enhanced ASCII support and needing to tag text files and find ...
7 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

auditing of certificate usage

Provide a means of auditing usage of specific certificates.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

ISPF Edit highlighting for ACS routines

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for ACS routines.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

data collection at DS8000 and RMF Reporting with Ethernet Throughput (in/out) with TCT (transparent Cloud Tiering)

We are using TCT Ethernet Activities not externalized by DS8000 Reporting of Ethernet transfer (in/out) at DS8000 Ethernet-Ports is required to monitor and to plan infrastructure
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

USS tar command support with zEDC

USS tar command support with zEDC Express Adaper for compress and uncompress. Currently, we need the third vender software with zEDC for compress, but versatility expands if USS tar command can be used with zEDC express adaptor. The CPU Time is re...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Prevent the user to activate all RACF cdt classes trying to list the active options

The way RACF is designed today, it doesn't allow an user to filter sort of options it has in effect. For example, if I want to list only the active classes, there isn't a filter for that suggesting I should use SETROPTS LIST to list everything. Th...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

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