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Provide an SVC 26 catalog locate user exit

Many vendors have SVC 26 'hooks' or have used SVCUPDTE to change the location of the SVC 26 processing routine. Providing a front end pre SVC 26/Locate and a back end end post SVC26/Locate fully documented and dynamic exit would help vendors and r...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF to show local LPAR name explicitly

Need z/OSMF to explicitly display Local LPAR name on all z/OSMF panels, such as not having to look to the URL to determine what system we are working with.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

#RVARY LIST command processes after HASP400

#RVARY LIST command processes between HASP400 and $S. Please refer to case TS008419404.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

SOCKS Configuration - Limitation

We have a problem with the SOCKS configuration in Mainframe that dont allow the use of DNS on the FTP server destination and only allow the use of IP Address. My concern here is that the network department setup rules on the SOCKS Server (the one ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

MVS "VARY OFFLINE" for an offline device should not request SYSIEFSD Q4 ENQ for 5 seconds

The current implementation for processing a VARY-OFFLINE-command is to request the "SYSIEFSD Q4" enqueue exclusively and cancel this request after 5 seconds if it could not be obtained.If due to some error or during allocation recovery some shared...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Future consideration

=3.3 Copy Relative Line Numbers

Provide support for ISPF 3.3 Copy (Panel ISRUMC2B) to select relative line numbers, as does with ISPF Copy within Edit (Panel ISRECPY1):Line Numbers (Blank for entire member, sequential data set or z/OS UNIX file) First line . . . . Last line . . ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Add catalog checks for catalog name and SMS bit during define and locate processing

We just wrapped up a 51-day case (TS011865490) where we had issues of the SMS bit being turned off (while on an SMS volume) and having a VVDS NVR catalog back pointer pointing back to the master catalog rather than to its TSO usercatalog. The IBM ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Provide way to regenerate ISRF05* messages after RESET SPECIAL

When editing or viewing a PDSE V2 member when generations are active, various ISRF05* messages may be inserted at the beginning of the member. Issuing RESET SPECIAL (for example, deleting COMPARE output) will delete these lines. It would be nice i...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

ISPF Allocation (3.2) key label entry should provide an option to validate

The Key Label should be able to be validated prior to allocation. This can be via a selection list or just validating the key label. A selection list would be ideal given the length of the labels and thus the chance of a finger check (user 0FC) :D
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Sorting file/directory names in ISPF UDLIST using case in sensitivity should be configured with a site wide default using ISPCCONF

see idea
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration