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ISPF View/Edit entry panel is giving a ?Request failed? error when browsing a relative generation that does not exist.

When entering the name of a relative generation of a GDG that has no entries (e.g. SYS3.TEST.PDS(0)) on the View or Edit Entry panel, it will result in error message "Request Failed". If help is selected, it will display pop-up message "ISRD024 Al...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Increase VIPADIST limit to greater than 64 ports

I'd like to ask that the current limit of 64 ports per VIPADIST IP address be increased.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OS FTP PROXY OPEN support over TLS

We've recently started to enforce TLS encryption for z/OS FTP connections. Some of our jobs use the FTP "proxy" command to request that a dataset be transferred from one z/OS FTP server to another z/OS FTP server. However, when this is done after ...
4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Slayte AHA Test Aug 26

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 08/26/2024 Submitter Name: Slayte Admin USER Submitter Email: admin@slayte.com Description: Test
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Future consideration

Consistent gdkdel response across cloud providers when object not found

AWS returns HTTP 204 (No content) for an object delete when the object is not found. The 204 HTTP response is a successful HTTP response (200 series) and due to that, gdkdel returns its successful return code 0. The gdkdel API documents the follow...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Future consideration

ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Replace CBRUXSAE OAM security exit with RACF STGADMIN profiles

The CBRUXSAE installation exit provides security authorization checking againstusers performing OSREQ transactions on object data. It is ASM code.We'd like a solution relying on RACF STGADMIN profiles.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 2 Future consideration

Wild card/s for numeric, alpha characters

Currently there are only *(asterisk) and %(percent) symbols for wild carding DSN (dataset names) in the ACS routines. To optimize/simplify ACS routine coding, we need wild cards for numeric, alpha characters instead of just % for specific fixed po...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Future consideration

Suppress system dump for Converter errors caused by user data open failure

The doc for IEC036I 002-B0 indicates it's almost certainly a user error. Because it appears in the SYSLOG as a JES ABEND it frightens our operators, and causes us sysprogs to stop what we're doing to see if JES2 is sick. Couldn't IEFVH1 be smart ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

ISPCFIGU - allow user line command table which adds line commands to site line command table

RFE 42654 requested a System wide line command table to be implemented in ISPCFIGU which was implemented in z/OS 2.2. This enables a system programmer to provide system wide edit line commands. But when a user wants to enhance the system line comm...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration