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Core Infrastructure

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HSM FLB support of archive function

The current set of available functions does not allow to 'archive' a file
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

Provide an option to run the zCX upgrade workflow fully automated

Currently the first two steps of the zCX upgrade workflow need to be run manually. It would be great, if these two steps can run automatically, so the whole workflow process needs no further manual intervention, once it was started. This would als...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

AMAPDUPL and meaningful error messages

Using AMAPDUPL return sometimes RC different of zero. In general this RC and messages are not meaningful or comprehensible or printed on the sysout. For exemple, if you want to have a TARGET_DSN with an £ character, the server return a bad request...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Allow reuse for VSAM file opened in RLS mode

To be able to use REPRO with the REUSE option against a VSAM file that is opened in RLS mode
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Planned for future release

REXX Syntax should be available in JCL

JCL isn't going away - it's too deeply embedded, there are too many "dusty decks" that aren't feasible to convert, and too many tools that work with or assume it. So, while having Python and REXX for scripting is nice, they can't supersede JCL. Bu...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

ADD STGADMIN profile to allow EXPORT of catalog without the need to have ALTER access on catalog name

ADD STGADMIN profile to allow EXPORT of catalog without the need to have ALTER access on catalog name
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Prevent wildcard searches on HLQ

When wildcard searches are used on large(r) systems, enq delays / decrease in performance is experienced on catalog processing that impact critical production business processes.Wildcard searches causes higher processing time for example when Db2 ...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance IRRXUTIL/R_admin to support DIGTCERT/DIGTCERT

I would like to see the R_admin/IRRXUTIL interface enhanced to support the "non-standard" RACF classes DIGTCERT and DIGTRING, this would allow administrators to extract all digital certificate info using IRRXUTIL without needing to rely on using I...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Running REXX containing dialogues should issue an error in case of user interaction when using REST interface

We use the command "zowe zos-tso issue command "exec somerexx"" extensively, to reuse some of our existing REXX on Z.This causes problems sometimes, when a legacy REXX calls another legacy REXX that calls another ..., and somewhere a panel pops up...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Reduce CPU time for UNIX file security especially if you have FSACCESS on

Please enhance FSACCESS and UNIX file system access so it stops draining our engines. I would suggest adding a cache so that FSACCESS doesn't hammer RACF with calls ever single time anything traverses a directory or touches a file.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 7 Not under consideration

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