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Enhance zsh so the delete key works as on other platforms

Currently the zsh shell works well on 3.1 but the delete key on z/OS does not work the same as on Linux. On z/OS 3.1 zsh the delete key generates a ~ character and inserts it. The zsh shell should be consistent.
11 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Issue a joblog error/warning message when the Java level is below the zOSMF requirement

The documentation for each zOSMF version notes the Java level prerequisite requirement for latest version of zOSMF. Often customers have trouble bringing up the server due to running an out of date version of Java but there is no clear message tha...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide direct dialog manager support for creating new logical screens.

It would make it easier to create customized environments.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Under review

Delete AboutPage.jsp link from Welcome Page on z/OSMF

This AboutPage is a huge security problem because a guest can see a lot of informations that he don't have to know
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration
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Full ISPF Support for PDSE V2 Generations

ISPF needs to fully support PDSE V2 generations. Currently ISPF Edit supports creating a new generation when a member is saved but none of the other ISPF services recognize a generation. Access to prior generations is not intuitive and thus effect...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 9 Future consideration

For HLQ's without a pdsmodel or psmodel configured, pass an undefined allocation over to DFSMS to handle it

This is useful for two reasons. 1) With the current limitation of the dsadm createparm command not allowing its use only when USERID EQ HLQ, which is in itself a terrible restriction.2) Without having a pdsmodel or psmodel configured for that HLQ,...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

zSORT Batch Pipes support

Bradesco uses DFSORT in many of its jobs that run on production LPARs. We recently have put on a project to test and certify the use of zSORT as a way of lowering the elapsed time of our critical jobs in the batch window. We also make use of Batch...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Not under consideration

Currently there's no check in the COPY command for ADRDSSU to see if the data sets are the RACF databases or not

Hi - Sometime ago, there was a problem when the data sets which contains the RACF primary and backup databases were moved using ADRDSSU. The data sets were protected as recommended by the books as well as they were assigned the PSU attribute. Howe...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Functionality already exists

Permit into Sysplex Management z/OSMF plugins, to manage the Preferred List of multiple structure at once

We have to replace CF1 with the CF3 in our CFRM policy, using "Sysplex Management" we were able to add the new CF3 LPAR very quickly, then we moved to change the "Preferred List" to all the Structures defined, but discovered that it's not possible...
20 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

System SSL HTTP CRL request should understand all valid HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol responses

At the moment System SSL describes the following requirement:"System SSL uses the HTTP/1.1 protocol to send the HTTP CRL request and requires an HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol response.The HTTP response must include a valid content-length field tha...
9 months ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Future consideration

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