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z/OS

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RACF: Avoid RACF Abend for a RACF TSO Comand due a missing Dynamic Parse Table

Currently RACF TSO commands (like LD, short for LISTDSD) can fail with a RACF abend if RACF "Dynamic Parse Table Initialization" either did not yet run or failed to run.RACF should be changed to return a meaningful return code (instead of abending...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Security Configuration Assistant plug-in to export review & fix suggestions to a csv file.

Makes it easier to configure z/OSMF
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

have CEEZ1IPT fail more gracefully

When an application is using PIPI, and the PIPI Main code creates children but then completes back to PIPI, future services that need the IPT will fail with an Abend0C4 in CEEZ1IPT due to not getting a CAA address from CEEARLU.CEEZ1IPT needs valid...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Full FTP Support for PDSE

FTP should support the transfer of PDS to a PDSE load library. There is no potential loss of data to be incurred from this in the way a PDSE to a PDS would be impacted. Currently this is not supported.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Member List - Add Block Line Commands

Allow Member List line commands to be entered in blocks. A block of line commands is marked by entering two forward slashcharacters (//) at the start and end of the block. The required line command is entered on the first or last line of theblock,...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

ISPCCONF - Add PF Key Definitions

Allow the ISPF Configuration Utility to define all 24 PF-Keys for the site.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 6 Not under consideration

Allow modification of CEEDUMP naming convention via parms

Currently, there is no means to change the CEEDUMP naming convention. The LE code uses /path/CEEDUMP.date.time.PID or /path/FNAME.date.time.PID, which may not match the convention a customer uses for other trace and dumps in Java. Providing such a...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Allow the number of JES2 NODES to be reduced without a cold start

We have a number of JES2 environments which have evolved over time. Decades ago, someone decided that it would be useful to define the NODENUM on the NJEDEF init parm as 9999, meaning we now have many systems defined with 9999 possible nodes. We a...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Provide a way for applications to authenticate through an HTTP/HTTPS proxy within zOSMF

In order to use a one of two functions within zOSMF which need internet access, our network is configured to pass through a filtering proxy service. This service both tracks pages we access and validates that we are allowed to access the page we'r...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add option to include top 3 lines in the SDSF SNAPSHOT

SDSF SNAPSHOT/SNAP command is useful when issues and IBM asks for a list of the running jobs, but every time we send a SNAP to them, they ask if we have the top 3 lines of the display (title line, command line, and Display options line). Having an...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

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