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Allow MSGCLASS to be overriden

The message class for z/OS Unix is class A. This is a print class for us and listings are being printed we don't want to print. From my experience Class A is a common print class.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

collect more data for FTP/TN3270 sessions in MONWRITE

We are enabling all FTP and TN3270 in our environment to comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. With FTP we cannot make it default for the entire environment at this time so we must still allow unsecure FTP to occur. PCI compliance “re...
over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Panel GIMISIDT should display full dataset name

Panel GIMISIDT only displays 26 characters of a dataset name that could be 54 characters if a member of a PDS(E) is used. There is a lot of whitespace on this panel, but if that isn't enough, use a multi-line display for each row in the table.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Enable editorCompare for uncataloged data sets

Applications wishing to exploit the editorCompare function can only do so for cataloged data sets, as there is currently no way to specify a volume. The editorWithPath function allows for a volser specification, so ideally editorCompare would supp...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

PLAC0911-1434 Avoid the necessity of having to use a zOS image to load master keys

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0911-1434 Avoid the necessity of having to use a zOS image to load master keysHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core Technology...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / TKE Workstation 6 Future consideration

Safer config online No.2

BTMU has requested for a new config online function regarding FICON Channel which allows to access UCBs by way of healthy channels other than the CHPID which is performing a config online command.The detail is as follows. While a CHPID is performi...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 4 Future consideration

General settings page for workflows to set time-limitations

Support a new general setting page in Workflows and the user can set the time-limitation for all workflow users in this new general setting page, the time limitation can be set for different scopes, for example: the time limitation can be set for ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Jobs/STCs supporting multiple TCBs that have TCBSENV populated with an USER ACEE result in the SMF 14/15 records show the USER of the TCB instead of the JMRUSEID.

Currently, customers of BMC TOPAZ/HCI see the address space userid as the issuer of an OPEN/CLOSE. The suggested change will show customers the USERID of the TCB performing OPEN/CLOSE instead of the Address Space USERID. At SMF 14/15 record creati...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF: Allow user supplied jobcard for "Send Dianostic data" in the Incident log.

The "Define Job Settings" step in the "Send Diagnostic Data" wizard supplies a (documented) JOBCARD default: //PDWFTP JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1) /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=* This jobcard can be modified by the current user and is saved in the /usr/<%userid> d...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Need more detailed explanation about analyzing the possible causes of message IOS080I

My customer wants to use the I/O timing facility of z/OS ( MIH IOTIMING paramenter) with the option for message-only processing.The manual describes the 4 possible causes of the message IOS080I indicating that the I/O exceeded the I/O timeout inte...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

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