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determine file size when viewing workstation file

ISPF and its workstation agent should be changed so that they can determine the size of the workstation file being viewed and allocate a sufficiently large z/OS work data set to avoid the out-of-space condition.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Allow blank lines in AMASPZAP input

Allow blank lines in SYSIN for AMASPZAP to help readability. Already discussed with Jim Mulder and Barry Lichtenstein. Barry also suggested allowing for an * in column 1 to be consistent with Binder.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

Make MODDVIPA available via a console command

It was recommended recently that we use MODDVIPA to ensure that an IP address remains with the stack. //CDVIPA EXEC PGM=MODDVIPA,PARM='-c XXX.XX.XXX.XXX' //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* - At the end of the proc, add: //DDVIPA EXEC PGM=MODDVIPA,PARM='-d XXX.X...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

&TRIM

Can a &TRIM built-in function be added to CLIST? I am aware that you can use this:SET MYVAR = &MYVAR But, this does not work if an ampersand or math operator is contained in the variable. Instead, a do loop is needed. Similar functions may...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

BPXBATCH (family) needs continuation character for STDNV

Our OMEGAMON product needs some fairly long environment variables for z/OS Connect. currently the only way we have to supply them is via the STDENV DD. For instream data this is limited to 80 characters. I googled and searched KC but I can find no...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

LLA refresh on large PDSE

DEVSERV macro needs a release all verb to improve the performance of an LLA refresh in a PDSE.
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

Authentication failure responses should not indicate which part of the authentication data was incorrect

Due to demands from security and compliance people, we would like vendor to implement a general best practice of software security coding. Specific we suggest that “Authentication failure responses should not indicate which part of the authenticat...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

Externalize the two TLD fields related to ZSCREENI dump size

The image dump depth and width are stored in the TLD, but not exposed in Z* variables. In order to find the beginning of the line associated within ZSCREENI pointed to by ZSCREENC one needs to know the dump width, which on larger than 24x80 termin...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

The AMAPDUPL program does not invoke the FTP Client program of EZAFTPLC with the AUTH parameter with a value of TLS preventing use of FTPS via AT-TLS

The AMAPDUPL program does not invoke the FTP Client program of EZAFTPLC with the AUTH parameter with a value of TLS preventing use of FTPS via TLS V1.2 via AT-TLS. Do note, that the z/OS FTP Client configuration setting of 'TLSMECHANISM FTP' is ob...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Provide more granular TCP statistical counters

I'd like to request that IBM add more granular counters for the TCP statistics "EPHEMERAL PORTS EXHAUSTED" value. During a recent incident IBM pointed out that the single TCP stats ephemeral ports exhausted counter can have multiple incrementers: ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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