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Sort Unicode positive / negative values with DFSORT

Company:SJNK: Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Systems, Inc. Back Ground;· The customer want to sort numeric string (positive / negative numerical value) of character code UTF-8 using DFSORT.· The customer tried to sort positive / negative value of...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Delivered

Support for querying PTF/APAR/SYSMOD/USERMOD status from REST API

Hi, I work for the GTS Global Service Engeneering team and we are developing some automation solutions around SMPE and we need a function to query for status of a certain PTF via REST API. This is very critical for IBM GTS in order to automate wor...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path.

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path. Ticket : TS016454799
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

Pass job name in &JOBNAME system symbol for JES2 users

Currently, the &JOBNAME system symbol in z/OS does not contain the actual job name; it is either JES2 or JES2CIxx based on the JOBDEF INTERPRET value. It would be beneficial to have it be the job name, as it is described in the documentation.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Delivered

Dynamically increase of XCF Notepad size

Provide a solution where we can increase the Notepad size without disruption of services. When we create a notepad, we are already planning its size considering future growth. However, due the high demand for notepad utilization during our project...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Delivered

add the jobname to the jes2 notification email

The NOTIFY statement email received uses a subject line of "z/OS job event notification" which makes multiple emails all look the same for the most part. Why not add the jobname to the subject line?
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Delivered

NCA: Tailored include/obeyfile should not be limited to LRECL during provisioning

In the z/OSMF Network Configuration Assistance for Cloud configuration; you specify an include and obeyfile for every z/OS image. The 'general' default is a PDSE with FB LRECL 80. The same applied to the 'ezb_cloud_allocate_stack_pdse' workflow as...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Enhance HSM ARCCMDxx to use system symbols or permit a concatenation of ARCCMDxx members

This would allow for a customized startup of HSM based on system symbols. Production vs DR Test for example.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Delivered

Create health check for usercats not in VLF class IGGCAS

Usercatalogs should be defined to VLF class IGGCAS for best performance. A health check should be created to show any usercats that are not in the IGGCAS class for VLF.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 5 Delivered

Display Public Certificate in AT-TLS Trace

Many times when working with AT-TLS there are mismatched Certificate issues. Especially when you are the client. However even when you have the Tracing for ATTLS turned to 255 you can not extract the public certificate from the flow. 99% of the ti...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered