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Modify ASCII BROWSE to honor Unix line break characters, like ASCII VIEW/EDIT already do

When using BROWSE in ASCII mode, CRLF characters in the Unix filesystem are not honored. The CRLF characters are honored in ASCII VIEW/EDIT. If the XML file size is smaller than 32761, the records are flowed onto one line of length 32760 (maximum ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Add LDAP configuration file option to customize activity log date format.

Activity log activity is written in the format Day Month Date Time Year as seen below: Thu Jan 11 12:49:26 2024 total operations started = 0 Thu Jan 11 12:49:26 2024 total operations completed = 0 Thu Jan 11 12:49:26 2024 total binds completed = 0...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

DSS should support all functions for the cloud too

Within HSM I recognized that DSS is not migrating some datasets to the cloud because of its limitations. In my case: ADR600E, RC=7, The data set is a VSAM data set where the high used RBA equals the high allocated HBA. First I thought it's an erro...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Planned for future release

z/OS Kerberos support for SPNEGO mechanism (1 3 6 1 5 5 2)

Our software product Virtel runs as a Web server on z/OS to access Legacy applications. Many of our customers have asked us to provide Kerberos support. We have tried to do this through the IBM z/OS Kerberos server, and this works fine for standar...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 1 Future consideration

MVSPUT Default trasfer type

When transferring data between two MVS systems which are EBCDIC environments the default transfer type should be set to EBCDIC instead of the default client ASCII 7-bit as it is currently when using MVSPUT or MVSGET commands. There is a guarantee ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add timestamp to message IZUG024I in zosmf server joblog stdout

Adding timestamp to message IZUG024I in zosmf server joblog stdout can help user easyly idetified the server startup ended time.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under 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

Request for enhancement to BPX1KIL/kill() to provide a specific return code for killing processes in zombie states

For the following scenario:- FOTS3214 cleanup_exit: kill(16777238): EDC5139I Operation not permitted.(errno2=0x0D100114) - Currently this is a unique timing window where the privsep child process is running without it's parent having a SIGCHLD han...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

need way to get id of client of AF_UNIX stream socket

Other Unix-like systems provide a way to determine the user-identification number of the client that connects to a Unix domain socket which is using the SOCK_STREAM protocol to communicate. For example, on IBM AIX systems, the application can use ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Copy and Paste Functionality of the output within z/OSMF should be in a readable format

When our Operations Team forward an Incident/Problem ticket to the second level support or any other team for further analysis, they put their findings, i.e. copy the required details and paste it in the ticket, so that second level support does n...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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