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ISPF Extended Statistics Enhanced Display

Currently ISPF supports extended statistics but fails to display them.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

Allow DHSMSHSM to set a lifecycle policy during bucket creation

We are using IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering and HSM to migrate data to the cloud. We have had instances where the migration fails, which can result in orphaned "multipart uploads in progress" on the cloud object storage. We have been manually remov...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Logon-ability with a Business Role

Definition of a Member-Class, the profiles are the name of the Business-Role, the members are group-names that represent different access-rights.Example:Profile: RACF-SystemadministratorMember:#TSOBASE Group for TSO-Basic-Rights#SDSF001 Group for ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Not under consideration

Strengthen the Certificate that authenticates SMP/E Download-Servers (deliverycb-bld.dhe.ibm.com/ deliverycb-mul.dhe.ibm.com)

The Root-Certificate used to sign the Server-Certificates for the SMP/E Download Servers (deliverycb-bld.dhe.ibm.com / deliverycb-mul.dhe.ibm.com) has been created with an old SHA1 algorithm. We would like to ask, if you could create new Server-Ce...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Order/Distr/Install 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate RACINIT 108 error on JWT expiration

When performing a multi-step, e.g RADIUS Challenge/Response MFA Authentication with the IDTDATA SAF Class activated, if the user waits for more than the JWT lefetime between steps, the user sees a quick flash of the message:IKJ56416I RACF RACINIT ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Option to include CICS JES Log / Job Log in DUMP

Option to include JES Log in DUMP. Either PERFORM DUMP or STAND ALONE DUMP. Had problem of hung CICS region; captured dump; cancelled and restarted CICS. Unfortunately; when Cancelled the Job Log apparently was purged and not SPOOLed to the archiv...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 1 Future consideration

Have RACDCERT ADD support adding from USS files

RACDCERT ADD currently only supports adding a certificate from a dataset with pretty severe restrictions. I quote: You must specify a cataloged data set, and it may not be a PDS or a PDS member. The record format (RECFM) expected by RACDCERT is va...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF REST Services - Add ability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII without adding NEWLINE characters

Add ability to convert EBCDIC to ASCII without adding NEWLINE characters, as a way to indicate that we have files that already contain the NEWLINE characters so that no additional NEWLINE characters get added.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Provide Unique ABENDs for B37-04

<p>Copied from old SHARE Requirements system <span>SSSHARE012857</span>: Voting Priority=2.9</p><br /><p>+5=2 +4=10 +3=3 +2=5 +1=3 abstain=1 -2=1 Priority=2.9</p><br /><p>Allocation failures (B...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Future consideration

Support for generated jobs

We need a simple way of execution of JCL, REXX or shell script that were generated in a previous step of a provisioning workflow.Provisioning XML, that is part of a cloud provisioning template consists of two steps1. Step – generate a JCL by an ex...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration