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Provide a DISPLAY PROCLIB command similar to D PARMLIB

Please provide DISPLAY PROCLIB|STCJOBS command similar to the DISPLAY PARMLIB command.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Future consideration

hbdelete - deleting Unix Directories recursively

We need an option with hbdelete to delete a whole directory with all files and sub-directories. Like option -X for hlist, the same option could be implemented for hbdelete. e.g. hbdelete -aX /u/iz01715/All files and sub-directories will be deleted...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Update LDAP on z/OS to bring it into this century with the TLS levels it supports

The LDAP documentation (and defaults) are woefully behind times. The give instructions on SSL V3, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 despite these versions being deprecated.The doc needs to be updated. The samples and defaults need to be updated, and deprecated ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA TCPIP profile - allow unresolved symbols in promoted configuration file

A lot of work has gone into adding the ability to maintain the TCPIP Profile in the Network Configuration Assistant The TCPIP command xportprof makes it easy to import the existing configurations into the NCA . It brings in the values for used sym...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR should be of type Error

In my opinion the message IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR ... should be of type error. A job should end with RC 8 and not 4, because it is an error and not an information the utility IFASMFDL gives. So please change it to IFA849E and change the behavior...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Password changes via RRSF should be logged in the target system

If a password is changed by a user and setropts audit(user) is active, an SMF data record of type 80 is written.If the new password is passed on to a target system via RRSF, the password change is not logged in the target system. There is no SMF r...
10 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Enhancement on TCP/IP DROP command

Right now, tcp connection could be dropped by vary tcpip drop command based on the connection id. However, user would like to drop connection straight forward by the destination ip address, instead of spending time on checking the connection id by...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zERT Report as well the timestamp

As all records that are loaded into zERT to analyze in the zOSMF Plugin do contain a timestamp, it must be possible to report on the time as requested here as well ZOS-I-3473 but additionally when running a report over few days or a single day, zE...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

In the LSPACE macro given the option switch off SVCDUMPs for VTOC errors

Change LSPACE to allow the option to suppress SVCDUMPs for VTOC errors
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 3 Future consideration

List uncatalogued PDS members with Z/OSMF API

Being able to list uncatalogued PDS members from the Z/OSMF API would be extremely helpful for the development of software for automating z/OS OS upgrades on our systems as well of lots of other tests and validations that we need to do. Currently ...
12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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