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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

Simple nested JSON index navigating

It would be nice to locate an entry nested within JSON by passing a string qualifying steps to get to it. For example for JSON: {"name": "My Object", "history":[ {"type":"Edit", "user":{"uid":123, "name":"Steve"}, "time":"2023-09-22T08:25:43.5...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

64-bit Web Enablement Toolkit

Support being called from a 64-bit LE environment. Would need this for both HTTP enabler and JSON parser.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Way to extract sub-object of parsed JSON

We'd like a way to parse a large JSON file but then extract the JSON for a given entry handle. So like HWTJGVAL but works for an object and turns the address and length of the JSON representing that object. For example, for the sample JSON: {"name...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

IODF IPL attributes usage visible to HMC and HCD

Especially with new machines and newcomers, the idea for having this visible when used would create less confusion about whether they are active. You already have this display on image profile LOAD section, so why not to use it also on SE and HMC ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

GDKUTIL enhancement

GDKUTIL is an utility program to upload/download between MVS datasets and S3 cloud object storage. It seems that right now the data encryption is solely relying on S3 server side encryption. Another security best practice is to enable client side ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Future consideration

Would like to see messages IGGN307I and IEA712I made highlighted and non scrollable during IPL

It would prevent issues post IPL with missing LPA libraries
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Password Policy per user basis

Right now, we could set the following control globally. Inactive revoke, password minimum change interval Is it possible to set it down to the user level? There might be some use cases in a system that different user ID having different requiremen...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Change HSM HOST id from single character limit to multi-character

A multi-character HOST id would allow customers to customize ARCCMDxx commands to be unique by multiple system symbols like a combination of operating environment (Live or DR Test) and HSM address spaces. Example: HOST=&SYSENV.&HSMHOST HOS...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future 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.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration