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ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Propagate HMC certificates to defined CPCs to allow LDAP login with secure certs.

In the conversations with IBM, the following appears to be the recommended path and we are good with this approach. We need to ensure that users (including IBM techs) can log into the Support elements using trusted AD-LDAP and our Privileged User ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

HMC WebServices API support for New Certificates

WS API support should be added to allow generation and import of HMC server Certificates (remote browsing, WS APIs, etc). There needs to be an API to generate the CSR (Certificate Signing Request). There is also a need for an API to then allow the...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

zCX - Externalize failure information to the joblog

Hello, zCX generates FFDC files when a problem is experienced and in the above case zCX restarted. There is no indication of the nature of the problem in the joblog, just that FFDC dumps were captured and zCX was restarted. We have to open a case ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Display FMID for datasets being deployed in a server pack

When doing installation of a server pack with many hundred of dataset it's not easy to know what product the dataset belongs to. There for it would be very useful to display FMID & a description of the product in a column to make it easier to ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Enhance visibility and validity of AT-TLS Certificate Chains

We would like to request the following enhancements to AT-TLS/System SSL/PAGENT with respect to certificate chain visibility and validation: 1) Provide a command to display the certificates that were selected/cached by ATTLS, to remove any doubt ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Not under consideration

DFSMS Storage group Analysis

DFSMS Storage Group Analysis : Currently, there is no way to check the allocations of a DFSMS Storage Group during a specific period. This makes it difficult to understand the amount of allocation, free space, largest free cylinders ( in each volu...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Future consideration

Change DSMON to repot on dynamically loaded RACF exits

I'm sure this was been asked before and will probably be rejected BUT it would be nice for program ICHDSM00 to be able to report on and handle dynamically loaded RACF exits.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Allow Sort Work (Temp datasets) to go multi volume

Could you please enhance DFSMS DFSORT to allow work files (Sort work/temporary files) created during SORT processing to go multi volume. Other temporary datasets can now go multi volume apart from SORT work datasets.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

System Recovery Boost - Monitoring of zIIPs

Hello IBM, We've been checking the workings of SRB on our z15s and I came across the following problem ... At shutdown of z/OS via GDPS or System Automation, STC IEASDBS is started and it sets reserved zIIPs online. So far so good. At IPL, due...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 0 Future consideration

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