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z/OS

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z/OSMF utilPathSelector should return volume and other information for data sets

When using the z/OSMF utilPathSelector to select data sets, the return type of results is a string array containing a list of selected data set names only. This differs from the behaviour when using it to select files in zFS, which returns an arra...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide PROCLIB display with ISRDDN

ISRDDN should provide a PROCLIB display, similar to LPA, APF, or LINKLIST, to display JES2 proclib information.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Future consideration

ISPF Regular Expressions to work in BROWSE

Add regular expression functionality to ISPF BROWSE in zOS v2.1 and up.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

z/OS EZATMAIL output class configuration option

We would like to have the output class for EZATMAIL set as a configuration option. Currently output class A is hardcoded and there is no way to change it.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Add PIPELINING support in CSSMTP

The SMTP PIPELINING FUNCTION can increase the performance of transmitting SMTP mails to the remote SMTP Server (MTA). Especially in cases where a large number of mails have to be transmitted. CSSMTP does not support the SMTP PIPELINING function.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

NETSTAT STATS doc update and output enhancement

The output values (counter) for 'SEGMENTS SENT' and 'SEGMENTS RETRANSMITTED' of command 'D TCPIP,,NETSTAT,STATS' wrap after *4'294'967'295 to 0.*Need to be verified by IBM. This 'wrapping situation' happens in our environments about every 7 to 10 ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Provide an additional parameter on the FORCE console command that would bypass the Q10 enqueue

The FORCE command does indeed try to obtain Q10 in order to run the CSCB chain and find the JOBNAME you are trying to FORCE. The task in CNMPROC that issued the FORCE JOBNAME command and is now WAITing on the Q10 resource from the ENQ issued by th...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Future consideration

Underlying reason for save failure is written to the log but not displayed to the user

When saving a file/member for a workflow step (such as saving JCL for a workflow step), the underlying error is hidden from the user. The user must go to IZUG0.log to find the underlying reason. It would be good if the error dialog presented to th...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance TSO TELNET command to be able to pass parameter 'Srcip'

Allow source IP parameter to be used with the TSO TELNET command, or an equivalent command/service.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Ability to set the max LRECL for our site of have it contingent on the type of step

We've been tripped up by this setting quite a bit when creating our own workflows. Usually (almost always) when we perform a step that is JCL, we need the max LRECL to be 80 (the default is 1024). Unless you know that will be a problem when run yo...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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