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Surface entire response body when using HWTH_VERBOSE_UNREDACTED

Today HWTH_VERBOSE_UNREDACTED will include the first and last 40 bytes of the response body. Would like a way to have the toolkit surface the entire response body - since the first and last 40 bytes isn't typically that helpful.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Add information to the SMF 119-96 and 119-97 records.

SMF record 119 subtype 96 (server transfer completion) and subtype 97 (client transfer completion) each contain a field for execution status. These are SMF_119SSH_FSStat and SMF_119SSH_FCStat respectively. These fields contain one of two values: O...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

Change how Timestamps are presented to users

Currently z/OSMF shows timestamps in UTC format https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.izua700/IZUHPINFO_API_GetJobStatus.htm it states that "Timestamps are presented in the JSON UTC format: "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss....
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add flash memory to z/VM paging

The idea is to enable z / VM to use the flash memory as paging area system instead of dasd disks to increase agility.
over 8 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

ISPF Identifiers -- Add option to "Display on own line"

Consider adding a "ISPF Identifier" option to "Display on own line" The ISPF Identifier commands SYSNAME, USERID, PANELID, and SCRNAME share the same 17-character area at the start of the Title line. If more than one of these commands are specifie...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Decrease the provisioning duration in ZOSMF's Capacity Provisioning Manager.

A 4-minute provisioning duration is to long for our mainframe. By the 4-minute mark we have already either shifted the workload balance between our mainframes or turned-on COD manually. We would like this dropped significantly.
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

JES2 did not issue the $HASP256 message

We hit a problem where JES2 did not issue the $HASP256 message indicating that after a JES2 checkpoint reconfiguration dialog there is no long a value for NEWCKPT1. With the current design of the dialog, it is only the member of the MAS that drive...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

PRESERVE OWNERid during COPY/DUMP/RESTORE DFDSS

If a dataset is logically copied/dumped or restored by DFDSS the OWNERID field in the Catalog is reset to NULL. The Customer wants to preserve the previous content of the OWNERID field during DFDSS Copy/Restore because customer uses a function in ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Allow HSM to configure the type of container that will create in the cloud for TCT.

At present HSM creates the containers in the Cloud as 'Standard' and we would like to have the option to create them as "Smart Tier".
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

NFS: Support nfs4_setfacl/nfs4_getfacl and read/write named-attributes

Using NFSv4 under z/OS, there is no support for the NFS4_getfacl / NFS4_setfacl commands, and the 'n' - read-named-attributes & 'N' - write-named-attributes.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Future consideration

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