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ISPF: Provide a way to dynamically define a line command table

With the demise of LMAC due to lack of support there needs to be a way to dynamically define an ISPF Edit/View line command table for the life of the Edit/View session. This would over-ride the global_line_command_table from the ispf config. Alter...
8 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Support extended highlighting in custom health checks

SDSF 3.1 adds a feature for extended highlighting in health check reports. These drastically improve readability of extensive check outputs. Right now, custom health checks are not supported and therefore can't make use of the new feature. SDSF an...
6 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

Open source z/OS: project OS/3

Project summary: fork z/OS into an upstream that is released as open source under the name OS/3. Why?: To bring the mainframe to the home. Big Picture: There is another project that started as weird niche enterprise software that computer science ...
20 days ago in z/OS / General 0 Under review

Allow VMRELOCATE outside of ICIC

Currently a VMRELOCATE performed on a virtual machine that is managed by ICIC will cause problems within ICIC if the VMRELOCATE command is issued from zVM itself. ICIC should be able to recover from these events on its own by issuing the QUERY USE...
20 days ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Enabling of a rest service/https support to use OAM functions

Enhancement of OAM by enabling rest service support for customers to use OAM functions
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

System Recovery Boost SMF record to know how much CPU used in ZIIP instead of GCP

During System Recovery Boost (SRB) some work, that is not eligible for zIIP, is dispatched on zIIP's in case there isn’t sufficient standard CP capacity available. There is existing SMF to count how much there is zIIP eligible time spent on CP's, ...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Not under consideration

Use the IBM Ideas portal to report and monitor status of z/OS documentation RCF's

Recent responses to a documentation omission message sent to the regular RCF email address (mhvrcfs@ibm.com) received a response that RCF's no longer normally receive any response from the documentation team(s). Users who have taken the trouble to...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

provide selective backup/restore capability for in progress Software Install configuration date

Recently we went back to see the results of an earlier configuration change and in hast believe we replied incorrectly to a warning about losing all later configuration information (which in this case was quite extensive and time consuming to do o...
3 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

z/OS with HSM and DB2 backup/restore utilities

Perform backup system alternate copy pool with many pools
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

STP handle multiple DST dates

Z15 with multiple LPARs using multiple daylight savings dates. Meaning some are US Central, US Eastern which can be setup using the Image profile time offset and be automatically changed using STP Daylight savings option as their DST falls on the ...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Server Time Protocol (STP) 5 Not under consideration

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