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Add parm to increase SORTIN and SORTOUT buffers to improve reading and writing throughput

DFSORT's ability to read and write SORTIN and SORTOUT files appears restricted enough to impact the throughput of both Standard files and Striped files. For SORTIN large Striped files can be read 4 times faster by OPTIONs COPY or EASYTRIEVE. CPU u...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 3 Not under consideration

LE: Allow TERMTHDACT option that combines UAONLY with MSG behavior, *without* the CEEDUMP clutter

Please provide an option for TERMTHDACT which provides the CICS transaction dump that UAONLY provides, along with the CESE output that MSG provides, without the copious CEEDUMP output that DUMP provides. In other words, we ONLY want the CICS trans...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Have TN3270 Task to provide a Count Down message when a Certificate that is cached it should provide messages on the cert and expiration

The CERT is cached when the TN3270 is started. When that cert is nearing expiration (30 days or less) there are no messages in TN3270 that state the cert is about to expire. Or how many days it is until expiration. Or what the name of the cert tha...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

in the panel editing: I would like the option of exporting the panel definitions into a text-source format with tools around it to be able to create pannels with ISPF statements. The definition should fit in a functional design, also context sensitive info for the end-user.

shorten the distance between functional design and program
7 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

PING Enhancement

On command line when issuing a PING command, I would like to add an additional feature to allow time interval between multiple PING counts. This feature is already available in UNIX OSs. For example: Ping Example 1. Increase or Decrease the Time I...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

SYSZIGW0 should prevent deletion

My customer encountered the message IGW039I while allocating a new dataset although the dataset could have been deleted normally. The deletion should be prevented by qname SYSZIGW0. Please refer to case TS009656465 for more details.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Not under consideration

Command to remove/add library from LLA/VLF.

To make it more easy and efficient to maintain libraries on the linklist and LLA/VLF, it would be nice if a F LLA command could remove a library without the need to create a CSVLLAxx parmlib member which is time consuming.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_General 1 Not under consideration

CICS login from z/OSMF native interfaces

Currently only ISPF login option is available in native interfaces. If we can add CICS login into z/OSMF then user can stop using emulators.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Support for GA2 to GA1 driver downgrade option

While planing to upgrade z14 GA1 to GA2 driver, the customer asks IBM to prepare guaranteed contingency revert plan in the case of GA2 driver causes the customer's production system failure. Unlike MCL apply, GA2 driver upgrade includs lots of new...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Not under consideration

Content of Received:- and Message-Id:-Header created by CSSMTP should be customisable

Each Mail processed by CSSMTP a SMTP Received:- and a Message-Id:-Header is attached by CSSMTP. These headers are visible for every node in the transmission path and for the Mail receiver also. Both headers contain security sensible information of...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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