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    ISPF Edit Highlighting for Natural

    ISPF Highlighting should support Natural code. This will improve productivity for Natural coders and will generally benefit the entire ISPF ecosystem.
    30 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

    Enhanced monitoring of VSAM RLS activity using z/OSMF interface

    Whenever there is a need to check SMSVSAM health for contention, locks response times and record queues one has to rely upon console commands usually routed to all the LPARs that run RLS workload in order to have a big picture of what is going on....
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration

    Allow RESTORE with REPLACEUNCONDITIONAL of source single-volume sequential to multi-volume pre-allocated target

    RESTORE of Non-VSAM data set causes diagnostic: ADR380E (002)-FRLBO(19), DATA SET USERID.TEST.SEQ1 NOT PROCESSED, 80 Data set was allocated with DATACLAS allowing 20 candidate DASD volumes, of which 1 was used to contain a number of data extents. ...
    4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

    To have parameter SYSSYM set to ALLOW as default instead of DISALLOW.

    Today in zOS2.5 we have parameter SYSSYM set to DISALLOW as default for all jobclass in the system. With all the migration that is happening and will happen from JES3 to JES2 customers will need at some point to change this parameter to allow if t...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Not under consideration

    JES2 - More granular Security Controls

    According to the most current documentation related to zOS 3.1 to control input to your system, it is only possible to control job class usage. See documentation for reference. However, the job class is not the only attribute that shall be control...
    10 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

    DSFS createparm limitations

    Currently dsadm createparm has following limitation:The user ID of the issuer of the command must match the HLQ (just the first qualifier) in order to be allowed to save creation parameters for the HLQ directory. We have many technical/application...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 2 Future consideration

    AI System Services Spark AT-TLS Encryption

    Currenty, the Spark (Master/Worker) part of MLz will be configured without AT-TLS during the setup of the AI System Services Framework with the z/OSMF Workflows. In times of Zero Trust this should be changed, so that all ports (including Spark Mas...
    7 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Planned for future release

    Provide the ability for DSS to be able to scratch and reallocate an in use (ENQed) dataset that is not the actual dataset in use during a logical copy operation.

    System programmers who maintain indirectly cataloged datasets on a maintenance sysres / sysres set that gets cloned to an IPLable sysres set.
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 5 Future consideration

    ADRDSSU enhanced Unix Support

    UNIX Support for ADRDSSU was introduces with the DFSMShsm Enhancements for Backup of Unix Files. The current DSS Design for USS files doesn't allow to use DSS with the same comfort for USS files as for classic datasets, as there is no support of s...
    10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

    USS Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion support for IBM-1141 and other code pages.

    We would appreciate an enhancement in Unix System Services – Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion – so that it also works for code pages other than IBM-1047, such as IBM-1141. Currently, the following restriction exists: Only the EBCDIC IBM-1047 en...
    7 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Functionality already exists

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