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z/OS

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Enhance 126char console command limit

A z/OS Console Command is limited to 126 char. For me this is a similar bad limitation as the 100 char jcl parm-limit before z/OS 2.1 (which is lifted now with PARMDD etc.) I´d like to have 1024char.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Future consideration

ISPF HILITE PLI - keywords missing

The IBM supplied ISP.SISPSAMP(ISRPXASM) from z/OS 2.1 (RSU1504?) lacks four PL/I keywords
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 7 Planned for future release

General Settings / Home Page info to be displayed on all pages

Update zOSMF Home Page settings to be displayed on all parges, and not just the login page.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

zERT Enforcement Policy and Policy Agent not adhering to same implementation

When using a zERT Enforcement Policy with two or more Traffic Descriptors, Policy Agent is not able to handle those as a single rule and creates artificially additionalrules for each Traffic Descriptor associated with the zERT defined rule, append...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enable SSH under OMVS to accept RACF password

I go into OMVS I type ssh userid@host I get back 'FOTS3322 Passwords may not be entered from 3270 terminals' If I can logon to TSO with a userid and password, why can't I logon via SSH with a userid and password? Here are my suggestions: (1) In th...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

Remove RACF non-alphabetic character requirement from Passphrases

NIST Password Policy Guidelines no longer recommend that password complexity be imposed, since studies have shown they can encourage the creation of bad passwords/passphrases. The manual indicates that RACF enforces a basic set of syntax rules whi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enabling CF R/W data structures access from zCX containers/OCP on zCX

As part of a mainframe application modernization project, the customer (that's me) aims to adopt the Application Centric pattern. This involves rewriting certain portions of the application from Cobol to Java and deploying them on zCX thereby capi...
8 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

CTRACE filter for IP Address for SSL traces

When taking an SSL trace for ATTLS connections you have to take traces for all ATTLS connections. This leads to a lot of noise in the trace.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

Supporting all date and time formats of DB2

We use the DB2 date and time formats in our programs. Therefor it is necessary that the language environment - that is the software LE - supports all date and time formats that DB2 supports.Supports means (examples):- day-zero is accepted (00-00-0...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Provide REFRESH capability on panel "DFSMSrmm Volumes (Page 1 of 2)"

When making changes to volumes (ie expiration date) on the DFSMSrmm Volumes (Page 1 of 2) panel, there is currently no way to refresh the list with the updated content, other than to back out and reenter. It would be very helpful if the REFRESH co...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration