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Want to improve parameter FREEVOL on DD statement

My customer wants to improve the parameter FREEVOL on the statement DD, to release all volumes of a multivolume tape file. To permit an other JOB2 that will be use the same multivolume tape file, to obtain volume serial as son as JOB1 release the ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

FTP - Submit a JOB from a UTF-8 encoded file

With the openness to the heterogeneous world, Clients most often work with UTF-8 encoding, while the "mvs" part of z/OS works in EBCDIC. We would like to be able to submit JOBs via FTP which on the Client are encoded in UTF-8, and that on the z/OS...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

VTAM ATCCON SYNTAX CHECK REQUEST

Citigroup is looking for VTAM ATCCON SYNTAX checking command/mechanism.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance NETSTAT ROUTE Command Filters

When using the NETSTAT ROUTE report specifying an IPADDR filter, it will report the route that exactly matches that address. Provide a new keyword that will cause the report to list the possible routes that would be used when sending to the specif...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Search order for REXX Socket Translation Tables

The Search Order for ACSII/EBCDIC Translation Tables is described in "IP Sockets Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference". The translation tables for REXX Socket Calls are searched in the following order:1. user_prefix.subtaskid.TCPX...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ISPF Edit Alert Editing File With More Than 999999 Records

When editing a file greater than 999999 lines, a warning should appear to alert the user. This might take the form of a ==MSG> line, or a ISPF short and/or long message.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Provide syslogd isolation by jobnames for AT-TLS Applications

Provide ability for syslogd isolation for AT-TLS defined Applications to maintain their Jobnames for use in syslogd logs. Currently, all AT-TLS Applications fall under JOBNAME=TCPIP.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Add EMAIL Keyword to ISPF Panel VER Statement

Please add the ability to validate email addresses via the ISPF panel VER statement.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Support for VIEW of the ISPF log

In dialog test, panel ISPYXD1 currently supports an option 5, "Browse ISPF log". But browse is not as versatile as View. When using the View service, the dialog developer can use exclude and find commands to filter which lines are displayed, makin...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Ability to group members of PDS for doing one common action

Currently, ISPF does not offer an option to mark the group of members and then choose the action for the selected members on such panels as ISRUDA1 (Option 3.1) and ISRUDSM (Option 3.4 and then select a PDS). It would be very handy to have the sel...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Not under consideration

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