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Externalize HILITE values to ISPF Z variables

Externalize the HILITE values to ISPF Z variables (e.g. ZHILANG, ZHICOLOR, ZHIPAREN, ZHIFIND, ZHICURSR)
about 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Delivered

Exploit 64-bit addressing mode in DFSMShsm

We would like to request the implementation of 64-bit addressing mode for DFSMShsm to avoid GETMAIN errors during Space Management. Even though existing APAR (e.g. OA32502) describe it as a works-as-designed effect, the limitation is drawing Stora...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Delivered

More user roles & access control (2): customerized roles

customerized roles for more advanced mgmt
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Delivered

GDKU0013I Add local name is DD:LOCAL

Hello, The objective is to have the name of the files transferred to the bucket (endpoint / Data_source / Data in object storage), without having to go to DEBUG with GDKU0013I With level(debug) DEBUG: DD:LOCAL is DataSet: true, name: FILE.NAME DEB...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 2 Delivered

Improve skulker performance

With SFTP, each transfer creates a log file. With heavy usage, this can create thousands of log files daily. Using skulker to delete these files is no longer feasible since it can only delete around 4K files per hour using almost an entire engine ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

TCPIP startup message

There are a lot of tasks depending on TCPIP startup.Actually there is no real TCPIP startup finished message issued that can an automation tool pick up. There should be a message issued when all functions of TCPIP are ready to do work so that the ...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Additional Granularity for FIXCDS commands

we would like additional granularity on FIXCDS commands to allow us to lock specific function such as delete and patch away under elevated access, while leaving things like display under standing access
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Delivered

CSSMTP default MAIL FROM parametrisation needed

For security Reasons our MS Exchange Configuration requires that the Mailheader always contains the “MAIL FROM:” statement filled with a valid Emailadress.In the case that CSSMTP tries so send a mail notification for an undeliverable mail to the s...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Prompt user if they try to start a second z/OSMF Workflow instance from the same Workflow Definition.

Some z/OSMF might not be suited to having multiple instances running in parallel. However, because there is currently no way to know from a Workflow instance which Workflow Definition it was created from, it is possible to start a second instance ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

DFSMShsm PARTREL RC08 RSN94 is not reflected in MIGLOG via a message

We recently had issues with very large striped datasets that filled our storage.We couldn't find why DFSMSHSM did not do partrel processing on these datasets.Turn out that DFSMSHSM treats stiped datasets as multivolume datasets and hence does not ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Delivered

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