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SMP CSI - Global & Target zone - Sysmods Receive/Apply - Reporting/Audit

There's multiple people who perform the receive/apply etc. processing against the SMP/E CSI's and sometime it's an ask to go back say about 3 months back to find out who received/applied the sysmod, so I thought since CSI is KSDS i could certainly...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Additional C functions for Linux portability

Add strnlen and wcsnlen (as on Linux) to the C runtime library.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

In SDSF ULOG, the commands history list should be enhanced to display the result based on the using frequency

It will become smarted based on the user behavior.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Permit zOSMF Software Deployment to initialize online target volume

zOSMF Software Deployment's "initialize target volume?" option, when opted, demands the target volume be offline. This requires manual intervention in the deployment of a software instance before and after the ICKDSF/INIT job to vary the device of...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Customize JES Keepalive value

Our customer has 2 centers, and there are z114s on both sites. And TCPIP NJE session is established between node of two center. If packet loss occured between 2 centers, it may cause disconnect of NJE session. We can't avoid packet loss perfectly,...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Add DFSMShsm RECYCLE for Cloud Objects

An enhancement to DFSMShsm RECYCLE to consolidate containers with a few objects to the "active" container or a specific container for consolidated objects. DFSMShsm creates cloud containers to store objects using the default syntax of SYSARC.<H...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

HTTP/HTTPS Protocol Enabler permit double quotes in cookies

The HTTP/HTTPS enabler needs to be more lenient with cookie values that contain double quotes. RFC 6265 section 4.1 does state that DQUOTES are not permitted in the Set-Cookie response header but then section 5.2 documents a more permissive algori...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Provide a user authorization and permissions agent compatible with Red Hat FreeIPA

Red Hat is investing in creating a user and security based tool for identity management and open sourcing the result as FreeIPA (www.freeipa.org). I would like to suggest making a CMS client for FreeIPA to allow VM user management with FreeIPA. I ...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Enhance IAZ0543I informational message

Any application doing a socket call to bind or connect to a IP address, or to get a port number from the TCPIP stack during startup can fail with LE's error message "EDC8116I Address Not Available" for the errno. It's up to the application to prov...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA - Install Multiple - add Prologue comment capability

The Install Multiple feature is fantastic but lacks the ability to add a comment to the installed configuration prologue.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration