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SYMNAMES symbol usable as value of a FIXLEN

Allow a symbol to be specified for the value of FIXLEN in a PARSE statement
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 3 Not under consideration

Script execution entries.

It would be helpful to identify what scripts have executed in OMVS. Helps to resolve issue wrt to sript execution or failures chekcing.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

3.4 allow use of individual qualifiers

The data set list in ISPF 3.4 allows the use of a slash character to represent the entire data set name. Likewise, there are times when I would like to refer to only one of the qualifiers in the data set name. For example, if the data set name is:...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Add module load point information to ISRDDN

When using the ISRDDN function to evaluate load module information, it is only the Entry Point Address (EPA) that is referenced... the Load Point is never really addressed. For example, when issuing the LOAD command, the "CSVQUERY results" pop-up ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

use milli-second time stamps in ISPF Gateway

To understand where ISPF Gateway spends most of its time while processing a request, we need a higher time-stamp resolution (milli-seconds is preferred) in the messages issued by ISPF Gateway.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

De-Mystifying SNMPv3 configuration and eliminating IOBSNMP

The configuration process for SNMPv3 is (to put it politely) utterly horrible. The snmpd.conf file contains what appears to be a random set of statements with no obvious way of correlating or ordering them. An addtional program - pwtokey - is requ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Support for Link Aggregation/NIC teaming

With Link Aggregation, the multiple interfaces are aggregated together at a lower level to make them appear at the network layer as a single network interface. This is supported on all other platforms except z/OS.With CISCO ACI and if no OSPF impl...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

SMP/E apply bad ptf

There is a timing window from a ptf has been marked pe where a sup'ing ptf is not marked pe.The error can now be introduced without any warning to the system by apply'ing the sup'ing ptf.Smp/e has to check for this and add this pe from the informa...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.

Hello, z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Row count not updated with TBSARG/TBDISPL

Row count is not updated with TBSARG/TBDISPL. This means that applications that dynamically issue TBSARG will have to loop through all rows, determine if the row is visible or not, counting the visible rows, and finally determine which row is curr...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration