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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.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Command to remove/add library from LLA/VLF.

To make it more easy and efficient to maintain libraries on the linklist and LLA/VLF, it would be nice if a F LLA command could remove a library without the need to create a CSVLLAxx parmlib member which is time consuming.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_General 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Software Management - Include Link to APAR info from screens that show PTF/APAR

We are looking for the Software Management plugin to add a link directly to the APAR information for screens that show PTFs/APARs so that it is faster to get that information.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

OAM Object support >2GB

OAM Large Object support should be enhanced to support objects with a size larger than 2GB per object.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 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...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

ATTLS advanced display function

Currently there is only one command to display the installed ATTLS base. "pasearch -t ". Network operator need more detail information for problem determination * Selecting ATTLS rule using wildcard for Rulename* Test command similar ipsec -t comm...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

zOSMF workflows enable approvers for all flow types

we are looking to utilize zOSMF and workflows to automate some of our processes. There is an approver option, however this is only valid with the 'Run this step as user ID:' option and then only via cloud provisioning. We would like the approver o...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 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

Add SSID and CCA for each device in RMF74.1 and DCOLLECT

The RMF 74.1 Logical volume activity records as well as the DCOLLECT records contain the Logical representation of the volume. The 74.1 does have the DSS Serial number, but that is not sufficient to uniquely identify a volume in a shared Environme...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future 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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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