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ARMWRAP needs to be added as a supported function

ARMWRAP, the ARM JCL wrapper, was made available as a download associated with the Redpaper for ARMWRAP . The information in the Redpaper is inconsistent with the way the source is designed and clients are struggling with errors. For example, the ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

No warning on "conflicting" use of "SEQ" keyword in SuperC

When doing SuperC compares, the "SEQ" processing option is only valid for FB(80)/VB(255) datasets.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

z/VM support for EMC Cinder Driver for SCSI LUNs

A customer wants to have IBM Cloud Orchestrator create/manage SCSI LUNs for z/VM Linux using EMC DASD. Currently it's not supported(certified) to use EMC DASD for ICO - only IBM DASD/SVC for FCP/SCSI.
over 8 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 5 Future consideration

Enhancement Recycle like process to help overcome the number of container restrictions for HSM TCT.

Enhancement ::We are looking at the possibility of an Recycle like process for datasets within a container.As the containers get old, there is possibility of data getting expired in them. This may result in containers holding very little/small num...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

ZEXPAND changes

The ZEXPAND command is helpful for entering long edit commands but the current implementation is somewhat awkward.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Need originating IP address for any 3270 session (TSO, CICS, etc.)

When users enter 3270 to access various applications such as TSO and CICS screens, the SMF records (ideally in SMF 80) should capture both the RACF userid and the source IP address initiating the 3270 session.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

Please make user created docker volumes available at /media/

Docker volumes I create sometimes need modifications while the docker container it is usually mounted to is down. In my situation, I am running Rocket Terminal Emulator in ZCX container. Rockets upgrade path, requires data manipulation in the moun...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

ADRDSSU Enhancement

ADRDSSU fails to reinitialize a space efficient flash copy volume if the volume UCB shows a count greater than zero. This leaves the volume online without a VTOC and subject to I/O errors if referenced. When using the FCWD option with ADRDSSU, a R...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Future consideration

Add IKEv2 Message Fragmentation support to IKED

Add support for IKEv2 Message Fragmentation to IKED as described in RFC 7383
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

CELQPRLG to support creating MAIN routines

Currently only subroutines are supported, so one must use a high level language that supports creating LP(64) main routines, which in turn requires the language runtime for that language to be initialized, which may be undesirable for certain kind...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

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