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Workflow needs a place to document author, version, change log, etc.

Hi, Currently, the workflow editor doesn't provide a place to keep track of the usual data that developers need. Things like author, version, changes, etc.For example: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Isolate PCI traffic from non-PCI traffic on the crypto cards

One of our teams has to purchase hardware security module (HSM) to handle the encryption of the PCI traffic. If CSF could separate the PCI from the Non-PCI traffic, this could allow our team to use the hardware encryption process instead of buying...
11 months ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Functionality already exists

z/OS resilience - GRS

Hello! We faced some crises where the root cause was very similar. An Address Space that held an important component off z/OS. We can share an example when a STC did an ENQUEUE on the RACF Base and did not release it again. To release this ENQUEUE...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_GRS 0 Future consideration

z/OS FTP SERVER to support Kerberos authentication without keytab

Currently FTP server is configured to be a distribute DVIPA and because gss_acquire_cred call doesn't support use_dvipa_override, it would require keytab to be setup for FTP Kerberos to work.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 1 Future consideration

ZEXPAND enhancement for ZCMD

In many cases, the command field on a panel is not defined with an expandable field which prevents the user from entering longer commands without overtly entering the CMDE command to get the expanded command prompt. Enhance ZEXPAND so that when it...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Please Support SQL (Db2) highlighting in ISPF Editor

As a DBA i use a lot of SQL's and it would be very nice to have an SQL highlighting in ISPF Editor - this also helps to detect misspelling errors.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Planned for future release

Allow batch TSO to return the MAXRC instead of the last rc seen

I have a sequence of commands, such as RACDCERT GENCERT... RACDCERT LIST cert. If the GENCERT fails, the list cert works, and I get RC = 0 from the jobstep. I have to have multiple jobsteps one for he RACDCERT GENCERT and another with RACDCERT LIS...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Non-intrusive catalog reorg/transformation to RLS-managed

A completely non-intrusive reorg function is needed to migrate non-RLS catalog to RLS catalog. The strategic direction for z/OS catalogs is RLS management so it behoves IBM / Mainstar to develop a completely non-intrusive function to transform non...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 5 Not under consideration

z/OSMF - Support for symbols in query processing for MVS datasets and USS files

We would like to be able to send requests to z/OSMF, through the Zowe CLI component, using symbols in MVS dataset names and USS filenames, such as the symbol &SYSUID, but any symbol known to the z/OS environment, (confer the list of symbols vi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Unsupported NJE remote executed commands improvement

The existing implementation of the $N command for NJE remote command execution does not fully support all commands. For instance, the $TA and $VS commands when send via the $N routing results in the issuance of $HASP649 - this is not a good error ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

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