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Enhance Compiler and Library for REXX on IBM Z to Generate 64-bit Code

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 06/05/2023 Submitter Name: Lionel Dyck Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: Enhanced the REXX Compiler to generate 64-bit code - let's free up the space below the bar.
9 months ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

Import/Export capability for z/OSMF provisioning resources

Today - a lot of configuration needs to be done in order to publish a provisoning template in z/OSMF CP&M. This shared or dedicated resource pool require configuration of instance details, Job statement and the different resource pools for net...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

BPXF029E return codes for failed ROOT mount when ZFS is not initialized

Recently, we were supposed to remove/comment the FILESYSTYPE TYPE(HFS) statement in our BPXPRMxx, but instead we made the following mistake: FILESYSTYPE TYPE(ZFS) /* Filesystem type ZFS */ ENTRYPOINT(GFUAINIT) /* Entrypoint for defining ZFS */ /* ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Relax dsadm createparm restrictions

Currently dsadm createparm has restrictions which makes it difficult to use. The HLQ specified for createparm much match the userid that is issueing the createparm command. This makes it impossible to use for HLQ's which are not related to userids...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Adding message indicates certificate replacement.

If RACDCERT ADD was issued against an existed certificate with same public key, it causes that your old/existing certificate to be replaced with the new one.But the output of RACDCERT ADD command doesn’t contains any info to indicate the replaceme...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Provide option to specify time zone for all z/OSMF logs

Provide a configuration parameter to set the time zone so that the time in the IZUG0.log and many other logs are in sync with the time in many other software and SYSLOG.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Mount point and directory hierarchy verification

Just like the SYNTAXCHECK checks the syntax of BPXPRMxx, I'd like to have the ability to compare whatever there is in the BPXPRMxx in terms of mount and mount points against the root file system. A feature that checks if the mount points exist in ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Share PDSE cross sysplex

Enhancement of PDSEs to be able to be shared cross sysplex. Currently, PDSE could not be shared outside a SYSPLEX.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

Create ISPF Panel (User Interface) for Web Enablement Toolkit

Create a simple ISPF Panels (User Interface) for Web toolkit JSON API's. This helps customers to play with JSON data without writing a separate program to use our api's to parse the JSON data. Example: User can just provide Sequential file as inpu...
6 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Allow DFSORT to run on zIIP

Enable EXCP access method for DFSORT and allow CPU processing for DFSORT steps to run on zIIP engines.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Not under consideration

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