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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...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Change how Timestamps are presented to users

Currently z/OSMF shows timestamps in UTC format https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.izua700/IZUHPINFO_API_GetJobStatus.htm it states that "Timestamps are presented in the JSON UTC format: "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss....
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

NFS: Support nfs4_setfacl/nfs4_getfacl and read/write named-attributes

Using NFSv4 under z/OS, there is no support for the NFS4_getfacl / NFS4_setfacl commands, and the 'n' - read-named-attributes & 'N' - write-named-attributes.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Future consideration

JES2 did not issue the $HASP256 message

We hit a problem where JES2 did not issue the $HASP256 message indicating that after a JES2 checkpoint reconfiguration dialog there is no long a value for NEWCKPT1. With the current design of the dialog, it is only the member of the MAS that drive...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Increase limit for z/VM VSwitch HiperSocket Bridge Port connectivity to LPAR

Customer environment uses VSWITCH with a hipersocket bridge and OSA to use a single network that spans CECs. In z/VM 720 the maximum is four LPARs per CEC that can connect to the hipersocket bridge. At DND each CEC has between eight to twelve zVM ...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Audit all superuser usage

Provide the ability to audit ALL superuser usage.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

OFFLOAD logstream program IXGM1OFL does not tell which logstream is offloaded

when program IXGM1OFL program is used to offload a logstream, it does a WTO of message IXG273I or IXG274I. Procedure which calls IXGM1OFL is IXGOFLDS. IXG273I or IXG274I does not indicate the logstream name. Without the indication of the logstream...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 4 Not under consideration

Provide ability to browse JES2 control blocks related to a specific job

As part of our product development, today we found a need to browse JES2 control blocks for a specific job. For implementation, it should be able to read blocks from storage or from the spool. It would also be beneficial for customers who write th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance filtering for SDSF RSYS

Provide enhanced filtering for the SDSF RSYS command. In particular, please allow use of a scope of JESPLEX
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

CommServer-z/OS 1.13 - cssmtp - Log Output during startup

We started the CSSMTP with a defined LOGLEVEL Value of "7" (default) and we have seen 491 Lines written to Logfile during startup and additionally another 743 Lines while shutdown. Everything is fine ! In case we set LOGLEVEL to "0" we see 467 Lin...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration