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ISMF Last Date/Time Modified field updated incorrectly

Although SMS SCDS does not contain any Scratch Threshold values, the Last Date/Time Modified field is updated when changing a Scratch Threshold value. My customer claims that the Last Date/Time Modified field shouldn't be updated if the SMS SCDS i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

Provide common APIs in support of PDSE Member Generations

We know member generations are useful but to access them requires a lot of work, especially from the open environment. By providing a set of common APIs current, i.e. REXX, and new, i.e.Perl, python, etc. will be able to easily work with member ge...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Not under consideration

Change DSMON to repot on dynamically loaded RACF exits

I'm sure this was been asked before and will probably be rejected BUT it would be nice for program ICHDSM00 to be able to report on and handle dynamically loaded RACF exits.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Request to remove the portmap dump call from z/OS NFS

Portmap dump calls are now identified as threats by standard firewall rules and other platform NFS clients have removed portmap dump calls. z/OS NFS should also provide a configuration option to disable portmap dump calls to prevent firewalls from...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Future consideration

Open source z/OS: project OS/3

Project summary: fork z/OS into an upstream that is released as open source under the name OS/3. Why?: To bring the mainframe to the home. Big Picture: There is another project that started as weird niche enterprise software that computer science ...
4 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

Use a presigned URL

Some user want to retrieve the object stored in an S3 using a presigned URL and not the bucket and provider name. They also want to store the object to S3 and have an URL link after the object is uploaded to S3. It will be perfect if they can UPLO...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Dynamically resolve variables in <fileTemplate> element

Currently, variables in the <fileTemplate> element of a workflow need to be statically defined in the workflow properties file.z/OSMF would become more flexible by dynamically resolving these/any type of variables at runtime.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

More granularity to secure JES2 commands

Nowadays you can only protect who can CANCEL any BATCH, any STC or any TSO in global but not by any other filter; for example: FORCE parameter, jobname,… If you have permission to the JES2.CANCEL.BAT resource, you can cancel any JOB. It would be i...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 45 Future consideration

RMF CF OVERVIEW Data shouldn't miss when one LPAR is down.

In our z/OS V2R5 environment, we observed that RMF MONITOR 3 CF OVERVIEW record couldn't be found which is empty. The Time gap is from 02/16/22 15.17.10 to 02/16/22 16.48.00.Our JB0 system ran into issue during this time range, but we don't think ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

Allow GDGORDER to LIFO and FIFO with Relative GEN Reference

With z/OS V2.1 I can now specify GDGORDER=LIFO or GDGORDER=FIFO. Only that is for the base of the GDG. I would like to be able to specify//DD1 DD DISP=SHR,GDGORDER=FIFO,DSN=GDG(0) Then the GDG order would apply to the earliest entry instead of the...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 4 Not under consideration

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