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SORT/ICETOOL statements for variable length records

Allow the coding of SORT / ICETOOL statements without having to add +4 to every position to account for the variable length RDW. This would require a new SORT option (perhaps VLRDW) to allow for both old and new method. Benefit: Easier to both cod...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Not under consideration

Reduce clutter in IPCS formatting of GTFTRACE output in batch

We use IPCS to format GTF traces from CICS but the IPCS GTFTRACE output includes extra lines that we don't want to see. To solve this, we first send the IPCS formatted GTF trace to a temporary dataset, then use a REXX to clean off the unwanted lin...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 3 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...
about 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...
about 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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow service to update (add assignees) workflow steps

We need an interface to add additional user or groups to steps of a workflow.(It would be o.k. for us if this information could be provided on workflow creation)To fit with the existing workflow services I recommend a genericPATCH /zosmf/workflow/...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

VARY SYNTAXCHECK for OMPROUTE configuration file

OMPROUTE had failed with the following configuration statements:; Interface IP_Address=a.b.c.d Name=interface1 Subnet_Mask=255.255.255.0 Destination_Addr=0.0.0.0 RIP_Interface IP_Address=a.b.c.* Name=dummy Subnet_Mask=255.255.255.224 EZZ7830I SYNT...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

SMF92 record remount in correct mode

The product only writes out the remount SMF record during the unmount portion and does not write another record after it is mounted again. This means that the mode in the record does not necessarily reflect the correct mode in effect after the rem...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Ignore invalid entries in the AUTOMOUNT policy and activate the policy with valid entries.

We've had a directory in our automount policy that did not actually exist for some time and it has not had any ill effects from IPL to IPL of lpars in the sysplex. This past weekend we had a sysplex outage and the unallocated directory prevented t...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

ISPF STATS Stuck at 01.99

When a PDS/PDSE member VV.MM reaches 01.99, the stats stop incrementing and get stuck at 01.99. When 01.99 is reached can the VV be incremented to 02 and the MM be reset to 00 and continue updating up to the limit of VV.MM, then reset back to 01.0...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

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