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Provide REFRESH capability on panel "DFSMSrmm Volumes (Page 1 of 2)"

When making changes to volumes (ie expiration date) on the DFSMSrmm Volumes (Page 1 of 2) panel, there is currently no way to refresh the list with the updated content, other than to back out and reenter. It would be very helpful if the REFRESH co...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

z/os message after model conversion takes place using OOCoD or CBU

Needing z/os to report a message when a model conversion takes place with OOCoD or CBU. z/os should report this with out the use of another product.There is an IBM case number associated with this. The case number is TS002615373.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Future consideration

Enhance 126char console command limit

A z/OS Console Command is limited to 126 char. For me this is a similar bad limitation as the 100 char jcl parm-limit before z/OS 2.1 (which is lifted now with PARMDD etc.) I´d like to have 1024char.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Future consideration

Enable SSH under OMVS to accept RACF password

I go into OMVS I type ssh userid@host I get back 'FOTS3322 Passwords may not be entered from 3270 terminals' If I can logon to TSO with a userid and password, why can't I logon via SSH with a userid and password? Here are my suggestions: (1) In th...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

Add a subsystem for Cloud Data Access

To load a file to a cloud you need to read a source file and write target file to S3. If you want to load a file to an S3, sometimes you have a file who need to be transformed. On first step you transform a source file to a target file and after y...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Callable service to query userid active/revoked status

Provide a callable service, possibly as a new function to r_admin to query a userid's active/revoked status. The status should take into account the user's- - Explicit revoked status - System inactive interval and last access, if not a special use...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

CTRACE filter for IP Address for SSL traces

When taking an SSL trace for ATTLS connections you have to take traces for all ATTLS connections. This leads to a lot of noise in the trace.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

Cert (private key) cleanup prevention for PW envelop keys

During certificate cleanup based on expiration date, the certificate for password enveloping was deleted- No new password envelopes- No access to passwords in envelopes
about 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Supporting all date and time formats of DB2

We use the DB2 date and time formats in our programs. Therefor it is necessary that the language environment - that is the software LE - supports all date and time formats that DB2 supports.Supports means (examples):- day-zero is accepted (00-00-0...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

To externally document return/reason codes in relocate section 443

Currently the authentication info in byte 1 of the relocate section 443 does not differentiate between when IDs with MFA fallback are logging in when MFA started task is down and when they are logging in from a bypassed application. Having a prope...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration