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Provide Change Tracker Option to Force Comments When a Change is Made

Customers spend far too much time trying to figure out WHY a particular change was made weeks, months, or years ago. And that problem will only grow as more people head into retirement. It would be great if Change Tracker provided an option for th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Add Rexx APIs for accessing EZNOSQL Databases

It would allow more utilities and programs to access EZNOSQL Databases. It would be useful for the product currently under development.
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 2 Future consideration

remote console access /zVM

remote console access to the end user in IaaS provider use case when there is any issue for them to connect to the VM in regular ways.
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

change HWI_STPCONFIG to return the External Timing Source Address as well.

We are required to provide evidence on a regular basis that the Mainframe is configured to use NTP timing. We want to automate the data collection for auditors. We use BCPii to pull back a lot of information about our systems, but while the HWI_ST...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Configure OSA 5S outside of HMC

OSA 5S cards can only be configured from the HMC, which is traditionally a CE roll. CEs generally are not familiar with having to code OSA card parameters such as loading the SNA microcode on an OSA card. Mainframe networking support team does not...
over 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 7 Future consideration

Additional Authority needed on RACF Classes

Class Authority allows a userid to create profiles in a RACF class owned by themselves or another but they can only see profiles they either have at least READ access to or own. Only a user with SPECIAL can see all profiles in a class, there needs...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Add DTLS Support for Enterprise Extender

We would like to see if DTLS could be added in Enterprise Extender so we could use SSL with UDP.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

SMPE Output in XML/JSON

Exporting in a format such as JSON/XML would allow for users to read in the SMPE output and manipulate the information to build a more automated process.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Integration of CHPID-Mapping-Tool-Logic into HCD

Today: IBM Z hardware configuration process is extremely clumsy, complex, error prone and time intensive. In addition the user needs to work with several non-integrated tools. This causes unnecessary effort in regular configuration tasks and adds ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / HCD 5 Future consideration

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