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Externalize the ISPF 3.4 FREE option

ISPF 3.4 (DSLIT) provides a FREE dataset selection option that will release unused space. Please provide an external interface via an ISPF Service that will accomplish this so that it can be used programatically.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Enhance RACF so a Passticket Only UserID is possible

Please enhance RACF so that we have a new attribute of let's call it PASSTICKET or PASSTICKETONLY We use passtickets and for security reasons don't want the UserIDs to also have to have a password.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RACF Validation of External JWT for CICS Provider RESTFul and Web Services

CICS RESTFUL and WEB Services most commonly execute in provider modes, receiving messages from external sources. A facility in RACF to validate JWT for CICS Web Services and RESTFUL from externally provided JWT would enable CICS applications to be...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Requirement to support HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF

We are trying to access z/OSMF over an Apache HTTPD proxy, unfortunately the proxy does not allow us to forward the client authentication certificate. The authentication is done on the proxy and then the proxy forwards the HTTP header-based authen...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Display more than eight Systems in ISMF panels

When displaying the volumes of a storage group MVS and SMS statuses for only eight systems are shown (e.g panelid DGTLGP36). In environments with more systems it is toilsome to get an overview especially when there is a large number of disks in th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

Simplify syntax for IDCAMS

Allow for an simplified syntax of IDCAMS commands No need for end of line continuation characters '-' or '+'. A statement (such as DEFINE, ALTER) would end when a new one begins. New END-statement syntax (END-DEFINE, END-ALTER) to signify the end ...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Add an APPL parameter (application name) to internal RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY calls

Add an APPL parameter (application name) for such calls so that INITSTATS can be configured to varying frequency with an APPLDATA profile to RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY calls internal to RACF
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

print HOLDDATA for SMP/E RESTORE Command

It should be helpful, if you print the HOLDDATA on the SMP/E RESTORE Command.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

provide a way to list data sets in the order they appear on the volume using IEHLIST

Currently, IEHLIST LISTVTOC only lists the data sets on a volume in alphabetical order. We would like a way to have the data sets listed in order as they appear on the volume or the order they appear in the VTOC itself.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

make it possible to adapt/customize the motd (Message of the day)

Customers require sometimes that the use of zCX adheres to customer policies & rules. They want to communicate this via motd.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

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