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Enable ISPF services to support PDSE Member Generations

LMMLIST and LMMCOPY along with LMMDISP should support PDSE Member Generations if they exist in the referenced PDSE.
7 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Notification over zOSMF to messenger APP

We plan to send status messeges from z/OS to mobile devices to give a systems programmer opportunity to recive this messseges and react on unexpected situation. Apps can be tools like signal, telegram, iMessage, threema or SMS messaging.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Dark mode for z/OSMF apps

Dark mode should be implemented in the z/OSMF apps, such as software management
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow option for V TCPIP,,SYSPLEX,QUIESCE to persist across IPLs

We use the V TCPIP,,SYSPLEX,QUIESCE,TARGET command as part of a high availability strategy to isolate a problem LPAR and remove it from distribution. This works well, but the status is reset when TCPIP is restarted. We would like the ability to al...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

GDPS Monitoring of Path Availability to Metro Mirror secondary Devices

Availability of channel paths to Metro Mirror secondary devices is crucial in the context of a GDPS HyperSwap. Currently it is possible even with a GDPS planned HyperSwap to swap from devices connected via 8 paths to devices connected via only 1 p...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 7 Future consideration

need CEEOPT64 for amode64 environments

allow applications that have amode31 and amode64 environments to be able to read options specific to their environment. For example existing CEEOPTS be used by amode24/31 applications and CEEOPT64 be processed by amode64 environment
about 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Provide a REXX API to EzNoSQL

There is a wealth of REXX applications on z/OS, many utilized under ISPF, that would benefit from this capability. REXX is also a fantastic, no compile, proof-of-concept/prototype language that can be used to validate a concept. Having this API wo...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 1 Future consideration

ISPF and USS are applications that should be consistent in their ENQ behavior since they edit and browse datasets. Expecting DSFS to handle dataset ENQs like ISPF.

With Open Enterprise Foundation, using vim (with DSFS) to browse and edit datasets should be a similar experience as when using ISPF.Dataset ENQs with consistent messages would be expected.
4 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Add REVOKE in FACILITY password reset authorities

Enhance the authority associated with FACILITY resource IRR.PASSWORD.RESET and those prefixed IRR.PWRESET to allow users to REVOKE an ID within the existing scope of authority of these resources. These FACILITY resources allow users to RESUME and ...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Enhance zsh to support tagged shell scripts

In order to increase compatibility and to be able to reuse existing scripts, the zsh should also be able to execute tagged scripts.
9 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

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