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Core Infrastructure

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MVSPUT Default trasfer type

When transferring data between two MVS systems which are EBCDIC environments the default transfer type should be set to EBCDIC instead of the default client ASCII 7-bit as it is currently when using MVSPUT or MVSGET commands. There is a guarantee ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Operlog should write more than a single MDB to a logblock to allow connecting of multiple MDBS for long multi-line messages

OPERLOG currently only writes a single Message Data Block (MDB) to a logblock for the OPERLOG logstream. When attempting to display OPERLOG in hardcopy format, know applications like IEAMDBLG, SDSFLOG and ISFLOG read single logblocks containing si...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in Z/OS with EDCICONV don't generate carriage return

There's no way to convert a file from EBCDIC to ASCII or Unicode without copy the file to USS With the utility EDCICONV the file generated don't get any carriage return (crlf or lf). This can easily be done under USS. However, we are looking to pe...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

z/OS Kerberos support for SPNEGO mechanism (1 3 6 1 5 5 2)

Our software product Virtel runs as a Web server on z/OS to access Legacy applications. Many of our customers have asked us to provide Kerberos support. We have tried to do this through the IBM z/OS Kerberos server, and this works fine for standar...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 1 Future consideration

DFHSM CDS Reorganization's interval

We conduct periodic REORGANIZATION of the CDS DATA SET in DFHSM and stop DFHSM on each occasion. We don't want to implement the reorganization as our customer system is 24/7. CA reclaim function might reduce the intervals of reorganizations, but w...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Not under consideration

Make DAE - ADYSET00 possible to supress SYSUDUMP the same way as SYSMDUMP can be supressed today.

When we get problems in our Environment with a lot of SYSUDUMPs produced and filling up our SPOOL volumes. Then we would like to have the possibility that DAE - ADYSET00 can supress all our SYSUDUMP's. This can avoid that all our spool volumes to ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Any OSPROTECT processing should be offloaded on zIIP processor

When enabling the OSPROTECT=1 attirbute, any additional workload should not be executed on CP but on a zIIP processor
over 1 year ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

Issue a IEFA110I message for Dynamic Allocation return code X'020C'

When Dynamic Allocation returns a return code X'0210', message IEFA110I is issued showing the job that is currently using the data set as this example shows. DELETE APP1.TECH.TABLE IKJ56225I DATA SET APP1.TECH.TABLE ALREADY IN USE, TRY LATERIKJ562...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Not under consideration

Allow the User to Define Edit Line Command Table for ALL Edit Sessions

Allow each ISPF user to define the Edit Line Command Table to be used for *ALL* ISPF Edit sessions regardless of how ISPF Edit is invoked.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

ISPF DSLIST Support of FLIP and HIDE Commands Comparable to EDIT/VIEW Primary Commands

The PDF editor "FLIP" primary command reverses the exclude status of a specified group of lines or all the lines in a file, including data, information, message, and note lines. In addition, the "HIDE" primary command removes the "n Line(s) not Di...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration