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SSI 80 Data Set List Request to JES2 should return correct attributes even if changed after data set creation

One of our products, Entire System Server, has a component to collect information about jobs and SYSOUT data from JES2 and JES3. When it was written in 2000, it used the SSI 80 request types available back then as well as JES2 and JES3 services e....
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Support special characters [<>&"] in the password (PW) attribute of the HTTPPROXY element in the SCMPCLNT DD input stream

We are trying to use the "network delivery" function of SMP/E. At our site we need to go through a proxy server to access the Internet. The proxy server requires a "service account" userid and password to be authenticated using NTLM. However, the ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm SEARCHDATASET

The ability to search for tape data sets that had a MANAGEMENTVALUE assigned, in looking at the SEARCHDATASET command, I foundyou can search for MANAGEMENTCLASS or NOMANAGEMENTCLASS, but not MANAGEMENTVALUE or NOMANAGEMENTVALUE. I can generate it ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Planned for future release

Allow customer to use zIIP via IWM4ECRE - for ML processing

Please allow customer to call IWM4ECRE for zIIP usage for their home grown ML(machine learning) application on hybrid cloud environment. Without being able to use zIIPs it would be prohibitively expensive which does not allow customers to fully ut...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

Improvement to BPX SYNTAXCHECK (z/OS v2r5)

As requested in Case TS011449479, I suggest that BPX SYNTAXCHECK functionality include validation of path. Test on a 2.5 system where the leading '/' was missing from a mount path: EDIT SYS1.PARMLIB(BPXPRMDG) MOUNT FILESYSTEM('ZOS25.ETC.ZFS')TYPE(...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

zOSMF API upload to RECFM FBA should not add character in column 1

Using zOSMF API to upload a file into a RECFM FBA Partitioned data set will add a reserve character in column 1. This occurs every time the file is uploaded and can cause record truncation.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Have TN3270 Task to provide a Count Down message when a Certificate that is cached it should provide messages on the cert and expiration

The CERT is cached when the TN3270 is started. When that cert is nearing expiration (30 days or less) there are no messages in TN3270 that state the cert is about to expire. Or how many days it is until expiration. Or what the name of the cert tha...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

DFSort support for non-extended encrypted files

Our company intends to use pervasive encryption to encrypt our mainframe datasets, but DFSort currently does not support non-extended encrypted files. It is crucial that this support is implemented since all our sorting is done through DFSort and ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Planned for future release

ISPF LMMLIST and LMDLIST should provide discrete info on each member generation

Currently in 3.1 (based on what I learned at SHARE) LMMLIST and LMDLIST provide information on the base generation and then information on the number of generations saved the most recent absolute generation, and the max number of generations. This...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Make OSA ICC Console Shared Certificate to use as CA signed with Pertinent infor such as Country Code, etc.

We like to have Shared Certificate as a option also like Individual Certificate to have it as CA signed. Right now, there is no way to have Shared Certificate to be CA signed to put in Country code and all the pertinent information. We need this s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

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