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Stop failing SMP/E process if duplicate entry in SELECT or EXCLUDE

When a SMP/E user has a duplicate entry in a SELECT list or EXCLUDE list or in both, the message GIM56401S ** UI53619 HAS ALREADY BEEN SPECIFIED ON EITHER THE SELECT OR EXCLUDE OPERAND. is issued and the SMP program terminates. A much better appro...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

RACF command LISTDSD DSNS not working for master catalog

Currently RACF is designed to exclude the master catalog dataset name from LISTDSD DSNS output under "CATALOGUED DATA SETS AFFECTED BY PROFILE CHANGE".
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

in the panel editing: I would like the option of exporting the panel definitions into a text-source format with tools around it to be able to create pannels with ISPF statements. The definition should fit in a functional design, also context sensitive info for the end-user.

shorten the distance between functional design and program
8 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

To externally document return/reason codes in relocate section 443

Currently the authentication info in byte 1 of the relocate section 443 does not differentiate between when IDs with MFA fallback are logging in when MFA started task is down and when they are logging in from a bypassed application. Having a prope...
8 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Allow DSS to produce easily transportable dumps

Currently DFDSS does not produce backup or dump output in a form that can be easily transmitted across the network with normal basic FTP clients (e.g. Linux, Windows) and servers. The dump normally has to be further processed by TRSMAIN or XMIT be...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Provide the ability to create only the volume label on a DASD volume using ICKDSF

We have seen occasions where something is overwriting just the volume label on cylinder 0, track 0 but the remaining data on the volume remains in tact. This causes the volume to be inaccessible along with all of the data on it. There should be a ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF 3 Functionality already exists

Add ISPF Paste DIsplay to allow Selection

Enhance the ISPF Paste command to support a Display (or Select) option to display a list of all available clipboards to select from.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

OAM Object support >2GB

OAM Large Object support should be enhanced to support objects with a size larger than 2GB per object.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

LE to allow UNIX System Services to interrupt an LE program utilizing Pause/Release

LE to allow UNIX System Services to interrupt an LE program utilizing Pause/Release. System: LE on z/OS USS Actor: SAP support experts or any other USS C code developer with the necessity to debug the stack trace of a process SAP support experts w...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

JES2 Storage exhaustion due to uncontrolled $JEWL creation/removal

Currently when an external task attempts to process a JES2 JOE and an error occurs, i.e. insufficient security access, JES2 builds a $JEWL control block for each JOE that was touched. The $JEWL is kept until one of the following conditions is met:...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration