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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

PTHREAD library always emit error when SYSIN comes from SYSIN dataset and unconditionally opens SYSOUT

When our C++ application code make the first thread creation call to pthread_create() the language environment implementation unconditionally goes and opens the SYSIN and SYSOUT DDnames. Our application can, in most circumstances, already be readi...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 4 Not under consideration

Support RECORG 'FS' in DFSMS Data Class Construct

Modify the DFSMS Data Class construct to support Record Organization value of 'FS' for Unix System Services zFS file system.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Not under consideration

CP directory statements USER and IDENTITY should allow at least 12 character passwords

In case of z/VM a recovery, where RACF is uninitialized or unresponsive, RACF defers the LOGON authorisation decision to z/VM. Which means that an 8 character CP directory password is used to logon to z/VM. These passwords are expected to be saved...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Disabling touchpad of HMC Table Top KMM

FC 148 HMC Table Top KMM is equipped with touchpad. But the customer is not familiar with the operation of the touchpad, so they are planning to use a mouse instead of it. To prevent accidental operation, touchpad should be able to be disabled.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 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.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

ZOSMF submitting jobs should also be controlled by surrogat class

The started task of z/OSMF can submit jobs without being checked on having a permit on a profile in the surrogat class.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 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

We would like job specific tape mount information to review elongated tape mounts

We have BVIR records where elongated tapes mounts have been identified but we need to identify which jobs were impacted. This information would be ideal to have stored in any of the job based SMF records (21s/30s/14s/15s). This information would b...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 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

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