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Provide a JES2 command to display the number of lines an STC has written and at what point it will abend

This concerns tasks that are not cycle more than a few times a year. When a started task is not cycled often, it can lead to S722 abends due to the amount of lines written. The JCT holds the line count. Even when SPIN is specified, it does not dec...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

IOEFSUTL format and other functions should identify the Version of the zFS formatted or changed

When formatting a zFS, IOEFSUTL does not identify what Version of zFS (currently V4 or V5) that it actually formatted. As seen in the Use Case in this requirement, lots of data about bytes and traces and details of the service level of the tool it...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

Logger limit of 200 Dataspaces

We have recently hit the 200 Dataspace limit of the IXGLOGR address space which resulted in message DFHLG0777 Return code 867. The problem occurred approximately 5-7 times a day causing some customer transactions to time out. It took close to 3 we...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Future consideration

call of IBM Encryption Facility For OPENPGP function with API

Goal, use API call in Cobol Program for Encryption and Decryption of Files in PGP Format.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

SDSF SJ command

Allow SJ SDSF command to support remote jobs .
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF: Allow mass-update for Workflows in the Workflows GUI

Allow some sort of "Mass update" function for the workflows in the workflows GUI. Currently, there is no way to modify multiple workflows when you are not the owner of the workflow.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to list all z/OSMF Workflow Definitions

z/OSMF Workflow Definitions must be specified when creating a Workflow instance. However the user must know the name and location of the file that contains the Workflow Definition. It would be FAR easier to use Workflows if the Workflow Editor 'ca...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOS OpenSSH extended attrs

Hello, Secure file transfers between mainframe ( client ) and remote Windows server ( FreeSSHD) abends with following message: FOTS0883 remote open ("...") : Bad message There were tested two cases:Mainframe -> Wintel file transfers ending with...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Future consideration

Enhance ICSF to support dynamic Enable and Disable for ICSF TKDS

Current and recent releases of ICSF provide a function to Enable and Disable dynamic updates to ICSF CKDS & PKDS datasets - I believe via PANELID CSFACF00. This function is missing for ICSF TKDS dataset. It would be nice to have consistency a...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

Empowering conditional access to general resources through privileged programs

Some resources different from DATASET also should be accessed through allowed programs. This would allow a refined access to some sensitive resources such as those under SURROGAT (for example, USER1 can submit a job in the name of USER2 only if th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration