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Provide a List of Breakpoints Under TEST

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0325114042User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE012535Title: Provide a List of Breakpoints Under TESTSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEF...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Not under consideration

New LE Callable Service to get (various)

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1216031457User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSLNGC0313587Title: New LE Callable Service to get (various) Program NamesSubmitted By: John MontiOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : APLS UGPROJ : LNGCFPOC: Kersh...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

TSO TEST LIST subcommand invalid instruc

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1202104953User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE016488Title: TSO TEST LIST subcommand invalid instruction handling.Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Not under consideration

Support for SSH3270

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1201034848User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR1201034848Title: Support for SSH3270Submitted By: Erich Amrehn/Germany/IBMOriginators Area: Technical Marketing Competence CenterFPOC: Daniel Griffith/Endicott/IBM...
over 10 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF IPADR Group and sort

z/OSMF1) Ip groups are not sorted by ip-adr2) Ip groups should be part of other ip grpups (group th group)
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

ipsec FilterMatches reset

customer selected counter reset for FilterMatches counter.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ipsec -f display using wildcard and ip information

Ipsec command can only use full qualified names without wildcard
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Comms Server IP and SNA Display Disconnect

A telnet LU pool can be exhausted without being able to tell from VTAM displays if the telnet server has no DEFAULTAPPL or USSTCP coded. The connection failure message on the client is quite generic and doesn't help identify the cause of connectio...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide diagnostic aide in ISPF TEST to see VDEFINE definition used for a variable

During development and problem diagnosis, it is discovered that a variable has incorrect content (shorter than expected, typically). ISPF TEST option 3 is used to see the content during the diagnosis effort to isolate the problem. If I could see h...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF import policy data not possible with a userid that only can perform logon with a passphrase

I am not able to import policy data in the configuration assistant plugin in z/OSMF with a userid that only has a password phrase. Our high privileged users do not have a password, they have a password phrase only. The import policy data password ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration