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Update ISRDDN enqueue function to include SYSTEMS and not just LOCAL enqueue

ISRDDN ENQUEUE display only displays local enqueue information.Updating ISRDDN to be able to display SYSPLEX enqueues would make it conisistent with other ISPF services, such as QUERYENQ
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Add Service Class to more RMF Records

RMF has always had serviceclass / workload Information in the 72 records. Now more and more records are added with job-Level Detail such as 74.2 XCF member activity and 77 Enqueue activity. To "connect" the jobnames from These records with workloa...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

Expand RECYCLE command with a new parameter PART (NO/YES)

For DFHSM with HOSTTYPE=FILE only command backup is possible, therefore SETSYS PARTIALTAPE (BACKUP(MARKFULL)) has no effect. Most of virtuell backup volumes therefore remain at status PART. A RECYCLE command (for example: RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCE...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

ICSF: quick rollback to the old master key in case of problems with the coordinated change Master Key

Normally we load the 2 parts of the mk from the TKE. Then from the ICSF we make the option Coordinated xKDS change MK. This process change the new MK in alls systems of the sysplex (re-enchypher included). This process seems very robust. But in ca...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Not under consideration

Legacy ISPF Gateway honors CGI_ISP* over _CMDSERV_*_HOME (or that the ship ISPXZENV to delete _CMDSERV_*_HOME).

Allow for flexibility of application developer to set CGI_ISPCONF and CGI_ISPWORK variables in their Groovy build scripts.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF supplied ftp profiles need to be GDPR compliant

z/OSMF supplied ftp profiles can't be modified to require passwords (per GDPR compliance) and can't be removed. They are useless now and confusing, as they can't be removed and can't be modified.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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

Display Crypto S/N in Cryptos panel

In z/OS, ICSF provides the crypto S/N. When we need to toggle the Crypto CHP from the SE, it is helpful to have the S/N, so we can correlate it to the z/OS ICSF Crypto # to ensure we have the correct Crypto. For example:D ICSF,CARDS CSFM668I 09.04...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under 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

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