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Color the different file types in ISPF UDLIST

In ISHELL it is possible to maintain the colors of the different file types in a file list. For example yellow for Symlinks, red for Directories, green for regular files.It would be nice to have this feature in UDLIST too.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Provide more granular control over the maximum number of processes limits

Currently, the maximum number of processes is controlled by the MAXPROCSYS value in BPXPRMxx. There are warnings not to set this value too high as each process has the potential to consume its own address space. This means that MAXPROCSYS should n...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

Make the ISPF TSO Command Function Consistently Across All ISPF Panels

an IBM Case was recently created to describe a problem encountered by RACF administrator, who had recently converted the RACF password pattern to include lower case characters. The problem encountered they discovered was that the ISPF TSO Command ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance SMP TRANSFERONLY PTF Download

If i Download PTFS/HOLDATA with the TRANSFERONLY option i have a unix directory with a few files and an Order Entry in CSI The Order entry in CSI tells me the requested PTFS and or Holddata, but the exact content downloaded is unknown without RECE...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Specify ROOTVOLSER on upgrade workflow

Currently the ZCX upgrade workflow will allocate a new 4GB ROOT VSAM file (e.g. ROOT2) based on the current SMS attributes of ROOT (as per the documentation). This is a poor assumption on most systems as the workflow will fail if space is not avai...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

There is no support for the Russian language

Product: Zowe CLI, VS Code Extension for Zowe A user (administrator or developer) edits or views data from datasets of the z / OS operating system directly through the web interface of z / osmf or products interacting with it, using the IBM-1025 e...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add Certificate Information to TLS command

When updating our certificates in our environment we would use a packet trace to confirm that our certificate updates occurred. This method worked since in TLS 1.2 and earlier the Server Hello would have the certificate in visible in the flow. How...
7 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

e-poll/io_uring support

e-poll or the more modern io_uring support is essential in USS for modern programming environments like node-js and Go language
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Apply Extended Format upon recall from ML1, ML2 and MLC

Similar to how zDMF applies Extended Format to moved datasets, automatically apply Extended Format to all datasets upon recall from ML1, ML2 or MLC.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Any plans to lift the restriction on 32K files?

The bank would like to process data records larger than 32K . One of our issues is the requirement to unload/sort/reload files which possibly contain these large records. In the near future, we will be shipping code that allows our customers to re...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 2 Future consideration