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Core Infrastructure

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Use SAVE on LPAR View Attached Devices panel

After selecting an LPAR using the View Attached Devices (u) option it would great if the SAVE command could be used on the subsequent "View Partition / Devices" panel to allow the list to be saved to output dataset. The SAVE command is not availab...
11 months ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

List all SEGMENTS from LISTUSER or LISTGRP command

Using RACF Commands LISTUSER and LISTGRP there is no way to list all the segments on the User ID or Group without listing each segment name on the command. The request is to allow the use of ALL on the LISTUSER or LISTGRP command to list all segme...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under 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

JES2 Policy - enhancement

z/OS2.4 has brought up great function of JES2 Policy however there are many fields which are not modifiable and bring a constrain in the way if we like to replace our jes2 exits. One of the example is SYSOUTGROUP where XMITTER field is not mention...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Provide optional tagging parameter for zOSMF Files API

Currently, there is no capability to set a file tag when creating a file using the zOSMF REST API for files. Adding an optional parameter to set the tag of the created file will ensure that the file lands in USS with the appropriate tag (when requ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zCX-Automate the change of IP address for the zCX instance for DR Testing purposes

We are looking for a way to automate the change of the zCX Instance IP address for DR Testing purposes where we change our DR IP addresses when performing DR network isolated tests.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Provide Change Tracker Option to Force Comments When a Change is Made

Customers spend far too much time trying to figure out WHY a particular change was made weeks, months, or years ago. And that problem will only grow as more people head into retirement. It would be great if Change Tracker provided an option for th...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future 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...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Mixedcase option

The Open Source UNIX standard is to use case sensitivity. However, it would improve z/OS OpenSSH usability if group names were treated without case sensitivity (similar to how user names are treated) when processing directives such as AllowGroups ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

List data set members and USS files with control characters in the name

Product: Zowe CLI, Zowe Explorer, Postman Actor: User attempting to list members in a partitioned data set or list files in a USS directory when one of the names contains a control character in the range \x00-\x1f (such as \x0a = LF and \x10 = DLE...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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