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z/OS

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USS shell should complain invalid hex numbers within a command

Copying from ASCII generates hex numbers which are not valid under EBCDIC. Using this hex numbers for example in a mv/cp command as filename makes it impossible to work with the filename, because the wrong hex numbers are included in the filename ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Future consideration

Option to ignore CRL expiry date in TR34 ICSF services

TR34 RKL ICSF services CSNDT34B and CSNDT34D uses CRL from CA for generating the TOKEN. One of the CA is sending a CRL valid for only one day, but confirmed that the EPP does not validate the CRL End date. Is it possible to provide an option to ig...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Options in ISPF interface in z/OSMF

Hi, In most installations, in TSO/E login panel the command parameter has some CLIST or REXX programs specified for execution. The same option is missing in z/OSMF ISPF interface. Please consider to add this option. In absence of this option, we a...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF DataSet and File search - Small Tunings - Sort by changed date, searchfor options

Add Under Dataset and File Search feature: Columns used by 3270 dataset list utility (Volume, %used, etc) When viewing PDS dataset, add: SORT BY CHANGED DATE, srchfor string option (same used on 3270) sort prompt, id, etc.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Support special characters [<>&"] in the password (PW) attribute of the HTTPPROXY element in the SCMPCLNT DD input stream

We are trying to use the "network delivery" function of SMP/E. At our site we need to go through a proxy server to access the Internet. The proxy server requires a "service account" userid and password to be authenticated using NTLM. However, the ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 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

DFSort support for non-extended encrypted files

Our company intends to use pervasive encryption to encrypt our mainframe datasets, but DFSort currently does not support non-extended encrypted files. It is crucial that this support is implemented since all our sorting is done through DFSort and ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Planned for future release

Obviate need for base register when using EZASMI interface

Right now use of the EZASMI interface to TCP/IP sockets programming requires a base register. It would be nice if that were not the case because it hampers development of baseless programs. I'd find it reasonable if a solution were provided based ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Desktop Dataset Search api - Add support to edit MVS data sets with different code pages

For users who are not very familiar with ISPF, the Desktop Dataset Search feature of z/OSMF makes it possible to work with MVS data sets and unix files. Currently the z/OSMF Desktop Dataset Search api supports the edit of a unix file with a differ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future 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...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration