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Would like to see a function in ISMF that would display the SETSYS options currently in use

Currently if i do a F DFSMSHSM,Q SETSYS - it is a rather long listing. I might missing a setting like MIGRATION HOLDIt would be great if in ISMF, the current parms as they are set could be displayed in an ISPF Table (not to update, just to view)Th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

DFSMS to store encryption keys of backed up datasets in new VVDS cell

Ability to see encryption keys of datasets included in DFDSS backups
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 2 Future consideration

NSSD Passticket Authentication with RACF protected Userid

During initialization of IKED-NSSD communication, IKED has to transfer a RACF Userid/Password or a RACF Userid/Passticket combination. When using a passticket, the RACF userid must not have the RACF protected attribute. When this Userid is used un...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Modify ASCII BROWSE to honor Unix line break characters, like ASCII VIEW/EDIT already do

When using BROWSE in ASCII mode, CRLF characters in the Unix filesystem are not honored. The CRLF characters are honored in ASCII VIEW/EDIT. If the XML file size is smaller than 32761, the records are flowed onto one line of length 32760 (maximum ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in Z/OS with EDCICONV don't generate carriage return

There's no way to convert a file from EBCDIC to ASCII or Unicode without copy the file to USS With the utility EDCICONV the file generated don't get any carriage return (crlf or lf). This can easily be done under USS. However, we are looking to pe...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Allow the User to Define Edit Line Command Table for ALL Edit Sessions

Allow each ISPF user to define the Edit Line Command Table to be used for *ALL* ISPF Edit sessions regardless of how ISPF Edit is invoked.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

ISPF DSLIST Support of FLIP and HIDE Commands Comparable to EDIT/VIEW Primary Commands

The PDF editor "FLIP" primary command reverses the exclude status of a specified group of lines or all the lines in a file, including data, information, message, and note lines. In addition, the "HIDE" primary command removes the "n Line(s) not Di...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Include the Rexx Execs documented in Appendix E of the CMS User's Guide and Reference.

Appendix E of the CMS User's Guide and Reference (SC24-6252-01) describes in great detail how to build Pipelines function packages in Rexx. However, the needed exec to actually do this (the FPLKWDTB, FPLEPTBL, and FPLMSGTB exercs) are not shipped ...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

need way to get id of client of AF_UNIX stream socket

Other Unix-like systems provide a way to determine the user-identification number of the client that connects to a Unix domain socket which is using the SOCK_STREAM protocol to communicate. For example, on IBM AIX systems, the application can use ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

IEBCOPY - Eliminate duplicate options COPYGRP/COPYGROUP to eliminate confusion

There are two confusingly similar options - COPYGROUP and COPYGRP. One is a superset of the other. This presents confusion to typical users who find the option that 'sounds' or 'reads' like it will do what they want but really doesn't. This presen...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

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