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Improvement to BPX SYNTAXCHECK (z/OS v2r5)

As requested in Case TS011449479, I suggest that BPX SYNTAXCHECK functionality include validation of path. Test on a 2.5 system where the leading '/' was missing from a mount path: EDIT SYS1.PARMLIB(BPXPRMDG) MOUNT FILESYSTEM('ZOS25.ETC.ZFS')TYPE(...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future 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

Enhance AT-TLS filters to allow hostname specification for RemoteAddr

For AWS ELB (Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing), we need support destination host name (instead of IP only) for attaching an SNI header using TTLSRules AWS Load Balancer externally uses multiple IP addresses of the range assigned to the e...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

ANTRQST support for returning System Name for each Path Group ID

In our environment with 26 LPARs across 16 Sysplexes it can be challenging and time consuming to determine which LPAR a DASD device is online to. The DEVSERV command: DEVSERV QDASD,xxxxx,QHA is useful for one or two devices but can be cumbersome w...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

Pervasive Encryption feature to enable PDSE, but exclude LOADLIBS (which cannot be encrypted).

We cannot enable PE for our PDSE libraries, as there is has been no method to exclude LOADLIBs, which become unusable when encrypted with PE. This prevents us from enabling encryptions for PDSE files that could contain confidential or restricted d...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Planned for future release

ISPF EDIT NUM BLANKS mode

ISPF should support an EDIT NUM mode that behaves like numbers are on... except that it does nothing with the numbers "field" except set them to blanks. Suggestion is a NUM ON BLANKS command that would put the ISPF EDIT session into this mode. Alo...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Cleint Certificates should not be required when specifying SECURE LOGIN as REQUIRED and SECURE PASSWORD as OPTIONAL.

Many FTP clients from various government and non government organizations connect to us. Some use Z: OS clients and some use non Z:OS clients. The administrators of these clients have various expertise. We wish to migrate as many of the clients to...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

DFSMShsm for files Incremental File Recovery

We currently use DFSMShsm to back up entire ZFS data sets, as well as Spectrum Protect to back up individual files. When we need to quickly recover a ZFS to the most current state, we first recover the entire ZFS data set, followed by a selective ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Add fields SUMECTR, SUMECTRE, SYSECTVC and SYSECEVC to z/OSMF Resource Monitoring

Adding this metrics to Resource Monitoring allows by one hand to have access to metrics that does exist in RMFIII, easier to configure than RMF UTIL and allows system programmers to see statistics related to DDF transactions when high performance ...
8 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

USS shell should complain invalid hex numbers within a command

Copying from ASCII generates hex numbers which are not valid under EBCDIC. Using this hex numbers for example in a mv/cp command as filename makes it impossible to work with the filename, because the wrong hex numbers are included in the filename ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Future consideration