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Support recataloging of SMS NVSAM data sets which have become uncataloged

ISPF is unable to catalog NVSAM data sets which reside on system managed dasd and have become uncatalogued. Request that ISPF be updated to handle a catalog request from 3.4 to recatalog a system managed data set using the IDCAMS RECATALOG. comman...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

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

Allow customer to use zIIP via IWM4ECRE - for ML processing

Please allow customer to call IWM4ECRE for zIIP usage for their home grown ML(machine learning) application on hybrid cloud environment. Without being able to use zIIPs it would be prohibitively expensive which does not allow customers to fully ut...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

Improvement to BPX SYNTAXCHECK (z/OS v2r5)

As requested in Case TS011449479, I suggest that BPX SYNTAXCHECK functionality include validation of path. Test on a 2.5 system where the leading '/' was missing from a mount path: EDIT SYS1.PARMLIB(BPXPRMDG) MOUNT FILESYSTEM('ZOS25.ETC.ZFS')TYPE(...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Stop failing SMP/E process if duplicate entry in SELECT or EXCLUDE

When a SMP/E user has a duplicate entry in a SELECT list or EXCLUDE list or in both, the message GIM56401S ** UI53619 HAS ALREADY BEEN SPECIFIED ON EITHER THE SELECT OR EXCLUDE OPERAND. is issued and the SMP program terminates. A much better appro...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

PHP API and Perl API on EzNoSQL

Add PHP API and Perl API to EzNoSQL to allow more flexibility and integration with mobile and Web applications of EzNoSQL. Not many Web servers or mobile platforms use C. Java is more common. These are the other APIs: C and Java.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Future consideration

Callable service to query userid active/revoked status

Provide a callable service, possibly as a new function to r_admin to query a userid's active/revoked status. The status should take into account the user's- - Explicit revoked status - System inactive interval and last access, if not a special use...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future 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

Please modify SDSF RACF calls to class JESSPOOL to use the RACF group(not RACF userid) to validate if a user has access to view/modify output.

This would be useful because users in a group should be able to view /modify all output created by userids in their group. Currently, SDSF only checks the userid of the output and many RACF groups contain many(5-50) userids so it would be very ben...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Functionality already exists

General Settings / Home Page info to be displayed on all pages

Update zOSMF Home Page settings to be displayed on all parges, and not just the login page.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

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