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z/OS

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Add information to the SMF 119-96 and 119-97 records.

SMF record 119 subtype 96 (server transfer completion) and subtype 97 (client transfer completion) each contain a field for execution status. These are SMF_119SSH_FSStat and SMF_119SSH_FCStat respectively. These fields contain one of two values: O...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

ISPF Identifiers -- Add option to "Display on own line"

Consider adding a "ISPF Identifier" option to "Display on own line" The ISPF Identifier commands SYSNAME, USERID, PANELID, and SCRNAME share the same 17-character area at the start of the Title line. If more than one of these commands are specifie...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

enhance ICSF panel R to list out the ACPs the same way as the TKE workstation.

Hi there, Currently ICSF panel R only alphabetically lists out only the enabled ACPs in just one big list. ICSF manual alphabetically lists out all available ACPs but also in one big list. my RFE is to request for ICSF panel R enhanced to list out...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

Print LE conforming assembler Stack frame storage in CEEDUMP

First I am not sure why LE Stack frame storage is considered language dependent and requires the language to format and print for CEEDUMP. Maybe it is assumed that there will be symbolic data available to match the fields with labels. The LE entry...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

SSH Closing Down needs to clear all the forked client sessions

Hi Team I was very much surprised to know that there is no such command to clear all the forked client sessions when SSHD is being stopped for an IPL / Recycles and we need to wait for all these sessions to close down or get closed due to being id...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

add details in SWAP LIST panel

The SWAP LIST display shows information about the various ISPF screens that are open. However, the information is cryptic. The SWAP LIST panel should include a scrollable field that includes the title line of the panel (please remove extra blank c...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under 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

Enhance JOBRC

Add a new option to JOBRC. {(SKIPSTEP,stepname[.procstepname]}
about 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Enhance zERT to Detect Non AT-TLS connections.

The product only identifies traffic if it uses ATTLS for encryption. Not all products or app servers connecting to us use ATTLS. For example, MFT is AES256 and yet they show up as unsecured. Same with CICS gateway and others.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

ONLY (O) Edit Primary Command

An ONLY function (exclude all lines except those meeting the search criteria) is a very common editing function. It is frequently one of the first edit macros developed when learning edit macros. Unfortunately, due to limitations with numbering mo...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

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