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    DFSort support for non-extended encrypted files

    Our company intends to use pervasive encryption to encrypt our mainframe datasets, but DFSort currently does not support non-extended encrypted files. It is crucial that this support is implemented since all our sorting is done through DFSort and ...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Planned for future release

    z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

    Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    DFSORT Y2x fields WTO or SMF field

    We need a way to identify all DFSORT job steps using Y2x fields. We want to get away from using 2-digit years and the need to periodically update the Y2PAST/CENTURY/CENTWIN global options. For this we need to take an inventory of what is actually ...
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

    To reject or abend for incorrectly using same dataset for input and output

    Have option to control (system level/step control) reject or abend for incorrectly using same dataset for input and output, when no sorting is performend, hence it risk to have inaccurate data. This will avoid developer wrongly coding caused data ...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

    Desired new feature: JOINKEYS on multiple files and new REFORMAT parms

    At the moment only 2 files can be joined using DFSORT JOINKEYS. We would like to join records from more files (e.g. 10 files). Subsequently a new 'A' parm of REFORMAT statement should be useful for values that apeer in all files. Kind regards Kons...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 7 Not under consideration

    s390x based oc-mirror plugin for linuxONE OpenShift clusters to mirror Operator HUB file based catalog in Air gapped environment.

    oc-mirror plugin can fine-tune the configuration to only include the OpenShift Container Platform releases and Operators that cluster needs which reduces the amount of data needed to download and transfer. Currently s390x based oc-mirror plugin is...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    SYMNAMES symbol usable as value of a FIXLEN

    Allow a symbol to be specified for the value of FIXLEN in a PARSE statement
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 3 Not under consideration

    ICETOOL new format of date and time for timestamp from Unix system

    I receive a file from IBM Unix system. The date and time is in the following format : number of seconds since 01 january 1970. This number is on 4 bytes length. I try to use a date format with ICETOOL to have a good date and time formatted value. ...
    about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

    SORT/ICETOOL statements for variable length records

    Allow the coding of SORT / ICETOOL statements without having to add +4 to every position to account for the variable length RDW. This would require a new SORT option (perhaps VLRDW) to allow for both old and new method. Benefit: Easier to both cod...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Not under consideration

    D ICEOPT

    Hello, Proposal to create a "D ICEOPT" command. Recently we discovered that some obsolete/undocumented options were preventing the ICETPEX from being invoked. There was another LPAR in the plex which did NOT have these undocumented options and the...
    about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Not under consideration

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