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ONLY (O) Edit Primary Command

An ONLY function (exclude all lines except those meeting the search criteria) is a very common editing function. It is frequently one of the first edit macros developed when learning edit macros. Unfortunately, due to limitations with numbering mo...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Parm to remove report lines from IXCMIAPU

Please add a PARM to IXCMIAPU so that it does not issue line breaks, page counts and report headers ADMINISTRATIVE DATA UTILITY: REPORT DATA TYPE = CFRM 06/12/2019 17:30:16 PAGE 4 ___________________________________________________________________...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Prevent users or group of users to use SSO (Single Sign-on) within z/OSMF

When using SSO within z/OSMF any user defined to z/OSMF can use workflows (for example with a JCL template) to submit a job to another lpar/sysplex if they are also defined to that other lpar/sysplex. We would like to prevent some users or group o...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

List available SSL/TLS Ciphers with info about use of Crypto Cards

In CICS communication (SSL/TLS) with ATM a Cipher is selected/negotiated. Please make a list of all ciphers with informations about which can run in the CryptoCard e.g. CEX6C (HW) to offload the usage of CPU, and which can only run using the norma...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

GDPS z/VM online/offline volumes hindering an ENABLED HYPERSWAP status

We have a GDPS environment with z/OS and z/VM and we are testing such that we have both participating in HYPERSWAP. The z/VM has a list of volumes for z/VM's use and those volumes are known to both z/OS and z/VM but z/OS volumes are only ever brou...
almost 5 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

DFHSM without TAPESECURITY(RACF) should not use SPECIAL Attribute

RACF SPECIAL is a critical security attribute.DFSMShsm modifies on Start its own ACEE to get this SPECIAL privilege. But Why?If HSM uses TAPESECURITY(RACF), then HSM has to create and delete RACF Profiles. But without this parameter, no RACF activ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Encryption facility for z/OS Key management requirement

We are running z/OS 2.3 and we have Encryption Facility for z/OS (FMID HCF7740). We have a limited number of applications using the product at this time, but we would like to introduce it to more applications. There are a couple of factors limitin...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Future consideration

ANTRQST support for returning System Name for each Path Group ID

In our environment with 26 LPARs across 16 Sysplexes it can be challenging and time consuming to determine which LPAR a DASD device is online to. The DEVSERV command: DEVSERV QDASD,xxxxx,QHA is useful for one or two devices but can be cumbersome w...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

HOLDUNTL a relative date

When SCHEDULE HOLDUNTL has a date specified it requires an absolute date (MM/DD/YY or YYYY/DDDD). This request would allow a relative day: ({[ 'HH:MM' ] , [ '+N'' ]}), where N is the number of days after the submission to which the job will be hel...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Limit UAUDIT logging

Provide a means to limit logging by UAUDIT users. Specifically, do not log DIRSRCH events for UAUDIT users.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

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