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System utilities should produce more parseable output

IBM system utility output can be unnecessarily verbose. Most utilities produce page numbers, multiple headings, etc. Quite often this is not useful and must be filtered out by programs or scripts before or during processing. It would be be very us...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 4 Future consideration

IBM z/OSMF REST API support user token authentication

Currently z/OSMF REST API support the following ways of authentication: -Basic authentication -Certificate authentication -Web token authentication We'd like to have user token or private key authentication supported, such that users don't need to...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ALLOCATE VERB : DSNTYPE

Complete PDSE support
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Future consideration

Add a section identifier to the Binder API buffers

This is an enhancement suggestion for the Binder API. To correlate section level data returned by the Binder API, you need to match on section names. This is both within a single call and across calls. Example 1: The IDRL (Language Processor IDR) ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

ixglogr offload elapsed records

For effective tuning of the system logger it would be advantageous to have the data for offload elapsed times available. Currently this would only seem to be available through a ctrace. this request is to enable records for offload elapsed to be a...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 3 Not under consideration

zERT Network Analyzer - resume data upload after connection to DB2 is restored

Request for z/OS® Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) We would like to request a change for zERT to automatically resume the connection to DB2 and data upload after the connection is dropped.There could be an option to define how many attempts ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Allow /usr/sbin/chmount to be able to change SETUID/NOSETUID dynamically

At the moment there is no dynamic way of switching between SETUID and NOSETUID using /usr/sbin/chmount. If you need to switch between these two mode it requires an umount/mount of the file system and potentially an outage of the application using ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

SYSZIGW0 should prevent deletion

My customer encountered the message IGW039I while allocating a new dataset although the dataset could have been deleted normally. The deletion should be prevented by qname SYSZIGW0. Please refer to case TS009656465 for more details.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Not under consideration

PHP API and Perl API on EzNoSQL

Add PHP API and Perl API to EzNoSQL to allow more flexibility and integration with mobile and Web applications of EzNoSQL. Not many Web servers or mobile platforms use C. Java is more common. These are the other APIs: C and Java.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Future consideration

Improve the way of reporting FICON Link Incident Report

(System)Core banking systems (Description)In z/OS1.7 or later, when Linux on z recieves FICON Link Incident Report (LIR), zOS1.7 LPAR reports the LIR to the lowest MIF number of LPAR. BTMU would like to select whether or not z/OS reports the LIR.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 46 Future consideration