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NSSD Passticket Authentication with RACF protected Userid

During initialization of IKED-NSSD communication, IKED has to transfer a RACF Userid/Password or a RACF Userid/Passticket combination. When using a passticket, the RACF userid must not have the RACF protected attribute. When this Userid is used un...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Auto recall DB2 flash copies upon call

Currently, if a migrated DB2 flash copy must be used for a recovery, a manual recall is required. This may cause confusion and would elongate the time to recover. Automatic recall of a migrated DB2 flash copy when it is called by the recovery util...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in Z/OS with EDCICONV don't generate carriage return

There's no way to convert a file from EBCDIC to ASCII or Unicode without copy the file to USS With the utility EDCICONV the file generated don't get any carriage return (crlf or lf). This can easily be done under USS. However, we are looking to pe...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Dataset Detail in Data Set List of Data Set and File Search

When you do a File List in 'Data Set and File Search' you get the name of the files and more column like mode, Owner/Group, Size, Modify Time. When you do a Data Set List in 'Data Set and File Search' you get the name and NOTHING else. Because I t...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OS Kerberos support for SPNEGO mechanism (1 3 6 1 5 5 2)

Our software product Virtel runs as a Web server on z/OS to access Legacy applications. Many of our customers have asked us to provide Kerberos support. We have tried to do this through the IBM z/OS Kerberos server, and this works fine for standar...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 1 Future consideration

Support JESLOG parameter on job card with the master subsystem

We execute our Netview STCs under the master subsystem rather than under JES2 and they can stay up for months at a time. The JESMSGLG can grow to several million lines which consumes a non-insignificant amount of spool space. We don't need that in...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Allow the User to Define Edit Line Command Table for ALL Edit Sessions

Allow each ISPF user to define the Edit Line Command Table to be used for *ALL* ISPF Edit sessions regardless of how ISPF Edit is invoked.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

ISPF DSLIST Support of FLIP and HIDE Commands Comparable to EDIT/VIEW Primary Commands

The PDF editor "FLIP" primary command reverses the exclude status of a specified group of lines or all the lines in a file, including data, information, message, and note lines. In addition, the "HIDE" primary command removes the "n Line(s) not Di...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

IEBCOPY - Eliminate duplicate options COPYGRP/COPYGROUP to eliminate confusion

There are two confusingly similar options - COPYGROUP and COPYGRP. One is a superset of the other. This presents confusion to typical users who find the option that 'sounds' or 'reads' like it will do what they want but really doesn't. This presen...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

Use a presigned URL

Some user want to retrieve the object stored in an S3 using a presigned URL and not the bucket and provider name. They also want to store the object to S3 and have an URL link after the object is uploaded to S3. It will be perfect if they can UPLO...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

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