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Enable VSAM browse/view from ISPF (without additional product such as File Manager)

Browse (and perhaps view) a VSAM dataset directly from ISPF without having to install an additional product such as File Manager
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Upgrade LibreSSL version to latest under z/OS 3.1 is possible.

As seen via the ssh -V command => OpenSSH_8.4p1, LibreSSL 3.0.2 This version of LibreSSL is not compatible with the latest OpenSSL 3.0 that was installed on an AIX server and that broke an existing CICS application's TCPIP socket connection to ...
3 months ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Under review

Enabling of IGMP on z16 ETS Adapters

We are trying to use an FSM Labs Timekeeper Grandmaster II (base package 1.12; timekeeper version 8.0.31) PTP server as an External Time Source to our z16 at Bundle S31b. There is a Cisco N9K-C9348GC-FXP at Firmware Version 7.0(3)I7(7) in between....
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

ISPF 3.17 Browse - fix codepage detection

When using ISPF 3.17 and selecting a file to Edit/View the codepage is correctly detected and the data is usable. When selecting the same file using Browse the codepage is not correctly detected and the data if unintelligible. This should be fixed.
10 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Setting shorter timeouts (e.g. 10th of seconds) in z/OS® client web enablement toolkit

The z/OS® client web enablement toolkit provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable traditional, native z/OS programs to participate in modern web services applications. In z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit you can use t...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

As z/VM RACF is not sharing with z/OS anymore we need a z/VM face on RACF, remove irrelevant CLASSes

As z/VM RACF is not sharing with z/OS anymore we need a z/VM face on RACF, remove irrelevant CLASSes. IBM no longer permits the sharing of RACF DB's with z/OS and z/VM. So why have irrelevant RACF classes visible in z/VM? It is confusing when scan...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Remove all references to JES on output of RACF commands on z/VM

I consider this an incorrout defect. My idea is to remove any references to JES and additional z/OS references that have no bearing on the z/VM product. It is distracting and confusing to me a VM sysprog. As RACF is pulling apart on z/VM from the ...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Secure Key Parsing

There is a use case where a password or key may need to be passed to a Job, Rexx, Exec or other operation securely. It would be useful to have a feature where by a key could entered when executing the operation and passed to it, possibly using som...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

zCX: Make docker cli available as MODIFY command to the STC

Currently, we've to login to zCX to issue "docker" commands like docker logs to zCX. In an early phase like POC / testing this is no problem. But as we're continuing / have the first production applications running, Operators also have to work wit...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

zERT - Show a hint when zOSMF NCA will generate multiple policy agent rules

As there is no 1:n mapping from the zERT rules to the implementable policy, zERT will generate as many rules as required and append a suffix like ~1, ~2, ~n. However when coding those rules in the zOSMF NCA GUI there is not hint that the resulting...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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