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Enhance SMP TRANSFERONLY PTF Download

If i Download PTFS/HOLDATA with the TRANSFERONLY option i have a unix directory with a few files and an Order Entry in CSI The Order entry in CSI tells me the requested PTFS and or Holddata, but the exact content downloaded is unknown without RECE...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Enhance AT-TLS filters to allow hostname specification for RemoteAddr

For AWS ELB (Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing), we need support destination host name (instead of IP only) for attaching an SNI header using TTLSRules AWS Load Balancer externally uses multiple IP addresses of the range assigned to the e...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Assign MSGTYP=(JOBNAMES) to message IEF402I to better communicate job failures

At present, other job initiation/termination messages are visible to consoles with MONITOR(JOBNAMES) attribute set, such as IEF403I, IEF404I, and IEF450I. The lack of MSGTYP=(JOBNAMES) for IEF402I appears to be missing the spirit of the MONITOR(JO...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 0 Future consideration

SSI 80 Data Set List Request to JES2 should return correct attributes even if changed after data set creation

One of our products, Entire System Server, has a component to collect information about jobs and SYSOUT data from JES2 and JES3. When it was written in 2000, it used the SSI 80 request types available back then as well as JES2 and JES3 services e....
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm add support for MGMTCLAS in DEFTABLE

Currently in DEFTABLE(EDGDEFxx) you can assign VRSVALUE/Management Value but you cannot assign a MGMTCLAS(Management Class). Only way you can do this is via SMS Management Class ACS routine. By allowing to override JCL specified MGMTCLAS or assign...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Copy SMF records to zWIN zfs without using FTP.

Currently, to copy SMF TYPE98/TYPE100 records requires using FTP. Unless using FTP, the RDW is not written to the zFS file and zWIN cannot process the records. Various utilities were tested, including File Manager but none of them copy the RDW. Th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Provide better messaging and prevent hang situation in dynamic RRSF main switching

Prevent blocking situations when user is starting a RRSF dynamic main switch if conditions of empty inmsg data sets is not met. Currently it is difficult to detect what the reasons are if a RRSF dynamic main switch is not completed. IBM should try...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF API upload to RECFM FBA should not add character in column 1

Using zOSMF API to upload a file into a RECFM FBA Partitioned data set will add a reserve character in column 1. This occurs every time the file is uploaded and can cause record truncation.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow SRCHFOR parameters like WORD and PREFIX to be usable on command

Currently, to use WORD or PREFIX or other Parameters for the SRCHFOR command, I have to enter SRCHFOR with no other parameters on the Command Line to get a SRCHFOR panel. I want these parameters on the SRCHFOR command like FIND already has.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

ISPF Edit Compare must support ascii files such as z/OSMF XML ones

ISPF Edit Compare does not work correctly with ascii files in a z/OS Unix file system, though it works correctly with EBCDIC files in a z/OS file system. Using ISPF Edit Compare in option 3.17 for z/OS Unix files on z/OS 2.2 at RSU1703, the COMP *...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration