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Enhance RMF M3 filtering capability

Please provide a means in the RMF M3 enclave panel to filter on user id, similar to the existing capability to filter on service class.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

Reconnecting OTIS after the corresponding Db2 was started in Maintenance Mode and later in Operating Mode ( OAM recognize this this )

When a Db2 instance is stopped and started normally the corresponding OAM and OTIS reconnect to it as expected. If this Db2 is stopped and started in Maintenance Mode OAM acknowledges this and reconnect to this Db2 when it is started afterwards in...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

ISPF Edit: Add new paramater UTF8 to SOURCE primary command

Since ISPF Edit supports UTF-8 encoding as well as ASCII the SOURCE primary command should have a new possible parameter-value UTF8 to switch to UTF-8 editing during the edit-session.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Optimized ADRDSSU CPU usage for uncompressed Striped Datasets backup

WHEN CALLING ADRDSSU TO DUMP A non-compressed SEQUENTIAL DATASET TO TAPE THE AMOUNT OF CPU FOR PROCESSING A 16 STRIPE DATASET WITH OPT(4) IS APPROXIMATELY 500-700% OF THE CPU USED TO DUMP THE SAME DATA FROM A NON-STRIPED OR SINGLE STRIPED DATASET ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Move CICS LSR Pools above the bar

This is in followup with RFE 114714 We would like to see the LSR pools moved above the bar for CICS. This will allow us to allocate more number of buffers which will reduce physical I/O
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Future consideration

Add a code stub to the z/OS LDAP examples for a basic authenticated session

Please add a new example file or commented section to the existing sample files found in /usr/lpp/ldap/examples/ that uses the LDAP client API to create an authenticated session through SSL on TLS V1.3. A working example would be a good basis to a...
9 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

Improve information in zFS statistics on z/OS

It is hard to use the zFS statistics because some key information is not available.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 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

LE Callable Service for RegEx

RegEx is a basic service to validate that a string is a regular expression. It's been implemented in Java, C, C#, perl, and many others. It's used in ISPF. It even has a Wikipedia entry. It's not available in COBOL. Take the best implementation, e...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Network activity need working prefix

You can use Filters but it is not that fast/easy. I would like to use the columns names. exampel: 'Jobname STCNAME' should filter all STCNAME. 'IPAddr 127.0.01' should filter that IP
9 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

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