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RACF: Create PARMLIB member for ICHRIN03

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0116143553User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE13031Title: RACF: Create PARMLIB member for ICHRIN03Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPO...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Wildcards/Generic Names should be allowe

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1116101620User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR1116101620Title: Wildcards/Generic Names should be allowed for conditional accessSubmitted By: Norbert Roeckel/Germany/IBMOriginators Area: 724/++496131845893FPOC:...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

TSO REXX - Should Detect PDS Member-Not-

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0711115114User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE018739Title: TSO REXX - Should Detect PDS Member-Not-FoundSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

TSO/E: WAIT Option for ALLOCATE Command

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0625114615User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE015927Title: TSO/E: WAIT Option for ALLOCATE Command - All DISPositionsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Control the number of notices that ACCOU

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1117112412User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE11025Title: Control the number of notices that ACCOUNT/SYNC createsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS U...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Print Workflow in landscape format

Currently the "Print Workflow" functionality is primarily intended for portrait format use.Especially for large tables it might be very helpful to be able to print in landscape format.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Monitor string usage

As described in PMR we had an issue after dynamic strings added.We had no idea we were close to limit and we are not aware how often this happens.We suggest to add monitoring for the dynamic string as described in Use Case.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

DIRMAINT ADDING 3 SPACES

New to DIRMAINT and noticed that when I add a new profile, user, or identity and then do command DIRM USER NOPASS to list the whole directory, the new entries are all indented 3 spaces. I opened a PMR on this as this messes up the format of the di...
over 5 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

SDB not working as advertised

SDB not working as advertised as below from ISMF: HELP-------------------- SYSTEM DETERMINED BLOCKSIZE -------------------HELPCOMMAND ===> Use the SYSTEM DETERMINED BLOCKSIZE (SDB) field to specify that the system determined blocksize should be...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Support <suspend/> element in workflow with parallel step execution

We would like to use the parallel feature introduced with workflows but it does not support the <suspend/> flag. We would like it to support this flag.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration