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Enhance COPY command from TSO/ISPF command line

In the current scenario, when editing a PDS member, a COPY <member_name> can be issued in the command line to copy contents from another member inside the same PDS.The idea is to enhance COPY command in 2 ways:1. When editing member MEMBER1 ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

Specify ROOTVOLSER on upgrade workflow

Currently the ZCX upgrade workflow will allocate a new 4GB ROOT VSAM file (e.g. ROOT2) based on the current SMS attributes of ROOT (as per the documentation). This is a poor assumption on most systems as the workflow will fail if space is not avai...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Add fields SUMECTR, SUMECTRE, SYSECTVC and SYSECEVC to z/OSMF Resource Monitoring

Adding this metrics to Resource Monitoring allows by one hand to have access to metrics that does exist in RMFIII, easier to configure than RMF UTIL and allows system programmers to see statistics related to DDF transactions when high performance ...
7 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Have TN3270 Task to provide a Count Down message when a Certificate that is cached it should provide messages on the cert and expiration

The CERT is cached when the TN3270 is started. When that cert is nearing expiration (30 days or less) there are no messages in TN3270 that state the cert is about to expire. Or how many days it is until expiration. Or what the name of the cert tha...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ISPF LMMLIST and LMDLIST should provide discrete info on each member generation

Currently in 3.1 (based on what I learned at SHARE) LMMLIST and LMDLIST provide information on the base generation and then information on the number of generations saved the most recent absolute generation, and the max number of generations. This...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

There is no support for the Russian language

Product: Zowe CLI, VS Code Extension for Zowe A user (administrator or developer) edits or views data from datasets of the z / OS operating system directly through the web interface of z / osmf or products interacting with it, using the IBM-1025 e...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

HMC WebServices API for Audit Query of User Profile Data

A WS API interface should be provided to send a WS API request to the HMC with an object target of HMC or CPC to gather the equivalent of the Audit and Log Mgmt task data returned for the User Profile Data selection (includes all subtypes of that).
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Color the different file types in ISPF UDLIST

In ISHELL it is possible to maintain the colors of the different file types in a file list. For example yellow for Symlinks, red for Directories, green for regular files.It would be nice to have this feature in UDLIST too.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

e-poll/io_uring support

e-poll or the more modern io_uring support is essential in USS for modern programming environments like node-js and Go language
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Apply Extended Format upon recall from ML1, ML2 and MLC

Similar to how zDMF applies Extended Format to moved datasets, automatically apply Extended Format to all datasets upon recall from ML1, ML2 or MLC.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

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