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PHP API and Perl API on EzNoSQL

Add PHP API and Perl API to EzNoSQL to allow more flexibility and integration with mobile and Web applications of EzNoSQL. Not many Web servers or mobile platforms use C. Java is more common. These are the other APIs: C and Java.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Future consideration

Filemode HSM - allow user to switch to su when issuing hbackup commands

it appears that if I am a user who can go into su (superuser) and then issue the hbackup command it doesn't honor or check the requestors ability to go to “su” (Facility class BPX.SUPERUSER). So…unless I have full access to all the files I want to...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

IBM z/OSMF REST API support user token authentication

Currently z/OSMF REST API support the following ways of authentication: -Basic authentication -Certificate authentication -Web token authentication We'd like to have user token or private key authentication supported, such that users don't need to...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Overflow of JES2 Resources beause of typing error in a batch application or in using the FTP JES2 interface

In a JES2 environment it is easily possible to quickly overflow every single type of JES2 resources, which are JQE's, JOE's, BERT's and Spool Space.A simple typing error in a batch application or in using the FTP JES2 interface may lead to trigger...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

SMF Type 30 Subtype 5 records contain last step condition code instead of End-of-job condition code

SMF Type 30 Subtype 5 (EOJ or end-of-job) records should contain the highest condition code of the job in the SMF5JCC field. The current condition code information is not representative of the entire job but only of the last step run in the job.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

ADD HEALTH CHECKER FOR IOS RECOVERY

There are IECIOSxx settings that would be helpful for reducing the recovery time of Channel Path errors.However, unless you are aware of them, they do no good. there are 100's of parameter settings and as IBM discovers best practices, adding IBM H...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Add a section identifier to the Binder API buffers

This is an enhancement suggestion for the Binder API. To correlate section level data returned by the Binder API, you need to match on section names. This is both within a single call and across calls. Example 1: The IDRL (Language Processor IDR) ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

System utilities should produce more parseable output

IBM system utility output can be unnecessarily verbose. Most utilities produce page numbers, multiple headings, etc. Quite often this is not useful and must be filtered out by programs or scripts before or during processing. It would be be very us...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 4 Future consideration

ALLOCATE VERB : DSNTYPE

Complete PDSE support
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Future consideration

Ability to utilize an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to transfer data to an S3 bucket

Our company has an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that requires us to use roles instead of IDs to access AWS. After meeting with Andrew Wilt from IBM, it was suggested we open this new Idea as this is not currently supported under DFS...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

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