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z/OSMF network configuration Assistant use cut/paste of multiple IP Addresses when creating Address Group in IPSEC policy

Ability to use notepad cut and paste to enter multiple ip addresses when creating an Address Group in ipsec policy gui interface of z/OSMF network configuration assistant.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Release Doug Nadel-written ISPF utilities to Github as open source

During Doug Nadel’s long and storied career at IBM ISPF, he wrote many useful little utilities. He also had posted some of them on his personal website. When he retired, he removed some of them for ethical reasons, as he felt that because he had w...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance SERVAUTH EZB.PORTACCESS SAF checks to capture the name of the REAL program calling for the port in an 80 record & ICH408I message

When something is abusing the port finding the calling program is not always that easy. So I think it should be possible for z/OS Comm Server itself to record that informaiton somewhere in the type 80 record. It would also be beneficial to add it ...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Evicting a job and restarting should work as expected even when return codes of steps executed before eviction are tested.

When a batch job is evict and restarted, it no longer has access to the return codes of steps executed prior to the eviction. The requested enhancement is make this process work as expected, which is for the job to be able to continue correctly af...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

RLSENABLE to fail when no CF structures defined

By providing the required define parameters for RLS and specifying storage class that did not have the required CF structures defined. The catalog was defined successfully, and a MODIFY CATALOG,RLSENABLE(catalogName) was successful. An attempt to ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Debug EZZ8309I. Command to display DVIPA counters ---> List address spaces and their current allocation of DVIPA resources.

To support the "EZZ8309I Too many VIPAS" message a command is required to display the DVIPA statistical counters as well as to list address spaces and their current consumption of DVIPA resources. This would be a useful problem determination aid a...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

RACF DELGROUP FORCE, and message enhancements

The usability of the RACF command DELGROUP could be improved. Also the error messages are useless and inaccurate. I want to be able to run a script to define RACF resources, and have a script to clean up. For most resources I can do this. I cannot...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Add functionality to report PDSE version 1 or 2 in DCOLLECT

PDSE v2 data sets were introduced in zOS v2.1. Yet I have no means to monitor and report existence of PDSE v2 data sets.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Allow PDUU to override TCPIP.DATA when using FTP flavor

PDUU can't override the global TCPIP.DATA values, when invoking FTP. As a result we can't make use of TCPIP.DATA overrides, like NOCACHE. Allowing NOCACHE would allow us to send each FTP stream through one of our different proxy servers via a Load...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Evicting a job and restarting should work as expected even when there are passed temporary datasets.

When a batch job is evict and restarted, it no longer has access to passed temporary data sets. The requested enhancement is make this process work as expected, which is for the job to be able to continue correctly after eviction and restart when ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Not under consideration