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    ISPF: Return ZLPDSUDA on LMMFIND

    This is a straight-up Request for Enhancement Headline: Set ZLPDSUDA in ISPF LMMFIND & LMMLIST services Description: The ISPF LMMDISP, LMMFIND, and LMMLIST services each optionally return a member statistics, setting around 28 different dialog...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

    Simple Ordering of rules in zOSMF Configuration Assistant

    When managing the order of rules by selecting the radio button and chose 'Move up' the focus on the selected rule gets lost and I have to select it again which is very cumbersome. The focus must remain on the selected rule to move it up few levels...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

    Cert expiry on 119-12

    Currently the zERT summary SMF record (type 119 subtype 12) lacks some of the certificate details that are present in the detail record (type 119 subtype 11). I propose that all details collected by the detail record be propagated into the summary...
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

    zfsadm shrink should provide means to mount R/O filesystem R/W, then switch back to R/O after zfsadm shrink completes

    zfsadm shrink requires too much manual intervention to be useful. Forcing a user to manually remount the filesystem R/W, then remount it again as R/O is time-consuming and error prone. zfsadm shrink should provide a means to do this automatically....
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 2 Delivered

    ICKDSF utility to include VVDS creation as part of INIT

    Why is it useful: VVDS automatically creating immediately upon INIT causing VVDS created with less size, avoid timing issue and avoid automatic VVDS size creation Who will benefit: all the customers use ICDSF INIT, VVDS avoid redefine with customi...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 3 Delivered

    z/OS SDSF CONFIRM(ALWAYS) with ABORT choice by default

    Hello, To prevent some misuse in SDSF about JOB purge with the action character "P" in front of a job, we try to customize the confirmation popup to avoid a too quick purge. To do that, in ISFPRM00, we added the CONFIRM(ALWAYS) parameter which is ...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

    Propagate HMC certificates to defined CPCs to allow LDAP login with secure certs.

    In the conversations with IBM, the following appears to be the recommended path and we are good with this approach. We need to ensure that users (including IBM techs) can log into the Support elements using trusted AD-LDAP and our Privileged User ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 Delivered

    Implement VIPA registration for zNFS Server to make it behave "Sysplex Aware"

    zNFS Server registers on startup with the LPARs Static VIPA for Kerberos. This means that the principal requires to be in the format:nfs/static_vipa_dnsThe Principal Name is defined in the KERB segment of the STC userid. This behaviour requires se...
    almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 5 Delivered

    convert more than just the IBM-1047 to UTF-8

    We're really interested in DFSMS CDA and have a lot of use cases. However, more code pages need to be added to the CONVERT option. We need to have support for EBCDIC 278 <=> UTF-8.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Delivered

    Sort Unicode positive / negative values with DFSORT

    Company:SJNK: Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Systems, Inc. Back Ground;· The customer want to sort numeric string (positive / negative numerical value) of character code UTF-8 using DFSORT.· The customer tried to sort positive / negative value of...
    about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Delivered

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