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Display Line Number When CLISTs Terminate Due to an Error

Display the line number when a runtime CLIST error occurs. An example would be when a substr error occurs.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Future consideration

Verify/Compare ISO-4 Encrypted pin blocks

Currently to validate an ISO-0 Encrypted pin block we compare the cipher text of 2 pin blocks. We would like to do the same but ISO-4 pin blocks have a random component to it so that cipher text can never be the same. We would like an API that tak...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Enhance SNI client configuration

In a scenario where a single mainframe client task is talking outbound to a cloud service on a single listener for multiple services, there is no way to configure SNI in ATTLS to support this. The only current way is to split the client task into ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

CDA add new SMF records

Hi, To secure & traceability the solution we need to have new SMF records. Cloud endpoint (url) Object name (file name transfert) MVS RACF user that did the work Bytes received/written Clock time Jobname/Stepname Best regards,
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

OpenSSH debug1: Exit Status 1 - misleading

System: OpenSSH on z/OS Actor: User needing clarification / adjustment of failure message - can be misleading in its current state Description: For all current versions of OpenSSH, we have something like this: Connection to hostname.xyz closed.Tra...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF utilPathSelector should return volume and other information for data sets

When using the z/OSMF utilPathSelector to select data sets, the return type of results is a string array containing a list of selected data set names only. This differs from the behaviour when using it to select files in zFS, which returns an arra...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

SET symbol value concatenation with lowercase and special characters

Simplify the syntax around creating USS paths by combining JCL SET symbols.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Future consideration

SNMPTRAP module should allow more than 256 character input

Constructing SNMP TRAPs with multiple OIDs can easily result in the call to SNMPTRAP module longer than 256 characters. When it is over 256 characters, an error message is produced: DTCINB005E The command line is limited to 256 characters If possi...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Ability to set the max LRECL for our site of have it contingent on the type of step

We've been tripped up by this setting quite a bit when creating our own workflows. Usually (almost always) when we perform a step that is JCL, we need the max LRECL to be 80 (the default is 1024). Unless you know that will be a problem when run yo...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Ability to disable the default jobcard in z/OSMF or have it as conditionally added if one isn't found in the JCL.

When using z/OSMF workflows, we seem to be forced to use the default jobcard regardless of whether or not the JCL we are using has one already. It's not a huge deal but it gives people the impression that they are getting a JCL error if they aren'...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration