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Enhance ISPF Table Services with TBHIDE and TBFLIP capability

When developing an ISPF application using tables the ability to filter the table display can significantly improve the user experience. To filter today requires that rows be deleted to remove them from the display and then added back when the filt...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Better support for PDS members in z/OS C library

The z/OS C library has poor support for PDS and PDS/E. Specifically, when using fopen() to read or write members, there are no facilities to: 1) obtain existing user directory entry info (read and write)2) update user directory info (write)3) supp...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

SMF type30 to include on task/job level ECSA/CSA and PVT/ePVT actual usage

Please include on type30 SMF record task level ECSA/CSA and PVT/ePVT actual usage fields.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 3 Not under consideration

SMP/E HOLDSYS to exclude ENH & make ENH as stand alone item to BYPASS

The default of HOLDSYS includes ENH.This RFE proposes/suggests/recommends to exclude ENH from HOLDSYS. And make ENH stand alone, such as HOLDENH.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

IRRADU00 support for IBM MFA SMF Type 83 subtype 7

IRRADU00 should support SMF Type 83 subtype 7 records created by IBM MFA. Currently, I seeIRR67654I The SMF record type 83 subtype 7 for product 5655MFA01 - IBM Multi-Factor Authentication for z/OS with FMID is unknownIRR67581I The failing record,...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

ISPF LMMLIST and LMDLIST should provide discrete info on each member generation

Currently in 3.1 (based on what I learned at SHARE) LMMLIST and LMDLIST provide information on the base generation and then information on the number of generations saved the most recent absolute generation, and the max number of generations. This...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Provide a refresh button in instances view for a provisioning instance so it's easy to follow its progress while it's running

During a deprovisioning run, a refresh button is available which allows clients to follow the progress of the deprovisioning run. This allows clients to follow progress of the deprovisioning run without having to leave the Software Services -> ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ISPF DSLIST SRCHFOR Results Selection Enhancement

The current results of the SRCHFOR and MEM within DSLIST (ISPF 3.4) present an indication of which datasets the results were found but there is no way to then select (browse/edit/view/...) the dataset with just the results. There needs to be a way...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

To have the ODTitle field as an option to the OFLDS

Our printing team manages output utilizing the ODTitle among other fields which was available with the Q command in z/OS V2.4 but removed in V.5 in favor of the JDS panel. They utilize the O panel more than the JDS panel to accomplish their workload.
6 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Fail request to encrypt when no enctyption is done (TAPE)

When we request a dataset to be encrypted (allocation in extended format and keylabel) on DASD SMS issues messages indicating the dataset was encrypted, however, If we request a new dataset with the same characteristics that goes to VTS (tape), ev...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Not under consideration

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