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ISPF EDIT PASTE primary command needs AK and BK function

ISPF EDIT PASTE needs the ability to honor the After Keep and Before Keep line commands just like Copy line command does today.
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

CBU acctivation date when turning off a CBU

when turning off a CBU with TEMPCAP the HWI_CBUACTIVE date does not seem to clear when everything is reset. If I issue a second TEMPCAP off the value does clear. IBM says to ignore that value. I think there's a bug if it clears when I issue the co...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

do not depricte oocod/cbu status from CPC

IBM has told me that they plan to deprecate the items that allow us to check the CBU/OOCOD status without checking the individual records. This is a really bad idea. It will greatly complicate code if we have to check all the available records. I ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance authentication APIs to support returning Identity tokens and accepting them for authentication

RACF recently (z/OS v2R4 and PTF'ed back to z/OS v2R2) added the ability for RACF to return identity tokens which are actually JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and to be able to use them in lieu of a password for authentication. Can APIs, such as __passwd()...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

zOSMF zERT plugin configuration enhancement

Currently zERT do not support DB2 configuration with TCPALVER=SERVER_ENCRYPT or the RACF passticket. Please enhance zOSMF zERT component to provide user the ability to configure the client-side securityMechanism or encryptionAlgorithm Please refer...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

Migrate to z/OSMF Deployment

Today, our shop already performs a form of deployment that isn't very conducive to migrating to utilizing z/OSMF deployments. This is the current maintenance deployment process that is utilized: Maintenance Libraries (MAINT. HLQ & CSI-tlibs-dl...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Not under consideration

DFSMSMDSS Do not create candidate volume on RESTORE

DFSMSDSS creates a candidate volume when the number of volumes in the source dataset exceed the number of volumes where the dataset resides when restored. A candidate volume should not be created and there are not any keywords that can be specifie...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Enhance RRSF start up so we no longer see ICH408i on EZB.INITSTACK

Please enhance RACF so that this message no longer pops at IPL time when the RACF address space starts up using TCP/IP for RRSF. ICH408I USER( ) GROUP() NAME(STC RACF TRUSTED)EZB.INITSTACK.xxxx.TCPIP CL(SERVAUTH)INSUFFICIENT ACCESS AUTHORITYFROM E...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

CPHX enhancement

CPHX should be expanded to support more options of the VARY command. For example, VARY <online|offline>PATH can not be halted. Long running commands such as VARY with a 'range' should either run asynchronously, or be HALT'able'.
over 4 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Better recovery from VTS and z/OS out of sync volume mount status

We have had numerous instances where z/OS and the VTS get 'out of sync' in regards to the mount status on a single VTS logical drive. We have had several instances of this situation with the most recent case documented in PMR 34469,122,000. In thi...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 3 Future consideration

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