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Provide additional restriction to using IDCAMS DELETE 'XYZ.**' MASK

Protect data environment from unintenational data loss
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 4 Not under consideration

CHECK(IBMUSS,USS_PARMLIB_MOUNTS) make MTAB updatable.

IBM Healthchecks are very good to follow, to avoid an outage. We use them a lot! But if a mount statement of a ZFS data set is wrongly defined in BPXPRMxx. The Healthcheck (IBMUSS,USS_PARMLIB_MOUNTS) complains with an exception. "ZFS NOT MOUNTED. ...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

ISREMSPY should honour screensize

ISREMSPY is used to debug edit macros. However, for datasets with an LRECL>72, the simulated screen produced by ISREMSPY is limited to 72 columns, even when used on an 62 rows by 160 column display. It should be enhanced to honour the current s...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

SMF Type42 should report Flashcopy statistics.

SMF Type42 already supports zOS DFSMS Advanced Copy Services statistics for Concurrent Copy (subtype4) and XRC (subtype11). Both volume level and data set level FlashCopy has been supported for years yet analyzing the workload relating to this ser...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Create a new code page in order to support latest Spanish language changes; namely, using ll and ch as two different chars

We have found a weird behaviour using PL/I REGEX function. After opening a support case, IBM team become aware code page needs some updates. However, it may be easier to build a new one, picking those changes.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Kerberized FTP with Sysplex High Availability

FTP is a highly used way to transfer files from/to the mainframe. In the modern time it is a well known way to use Kerberos for authentication and Single Sign on. Currently, FTP on z/OS can be configured to use Kerberos only with the Host IP addre...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow software instances to have more than one workflow file

Even IBM written workflow (e.g. zCX) do have multiple files to have a separation between the workflow itself and the JCL or REXX templates. Like that, the workflow is much more maintainable compared to using inline templates. However when creating...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 5 Not under consideration

Safer config online

BTMU has requested that we provide a new config online command that does all of the following automatically. BTMU hope that this new function will be included in z/OS2.1 or later.This request was discussed between zPE Makiyo Suzuki and z/OS IOS De...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 10 Future consideration

XCF_CF_STR_NONVOLATILE

We have several CF structures that we keep in simplex mode due to performance issues. We would like to exclude these from the XCF nonvolatile health check as to not have to remember to ignore this exceptions.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 4 Future consideration

Allow to specify a conversion technique when using CUNMTUNI batch tool

The Unicode Services batch client CUNMTUNI always uses the default technique-search-order for character conversion making it unusable with user-defined conversion tables (except maybe by using a user-defined codepage which would require a SMP/E us...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode 2 Future consideration

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