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Add PROC parameter/variable to ACBJBAOB in SYS1.SACBCNTL for ISPF data set name HLQ

When using Naviquest to generate a job, it will generate a JCL job stream that contains a JCLLIB statement that points to SYS1.SACBCNTL and an EXEC statement for a PROC located in that data set (ACBJBAOB). There are a few parameters/variables that...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

CSSMTP text line too long in attached file

CSSMTP reject a mail with message "text line too long". the rejected mail has an attached file with a LRECL 1032 hence the error since CSSMTP enforce RFC2822 which limit the line length to 998 characters plus CRLF. There was not this problem with ...
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

ISPF Copy, Compare, Search do not support Unix files

ISPF was made Unix aware a few releases back, but functions like ISPF 3.3 copy, ISPF 3.12 and 3.13 SuperC, and 3.14 and 3.15 search were not made Unix aware. These functions should be modified to support Unix filenames.
almost 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Z/OSMF ISPF needs to use ACCOUNT NUMBERS with comma's.

z/OSMF ISPF does not allow account numbers with comma's. Since z/OSMF ISPF does not allow full screen logon and uses line mode type of logon. The account number gets truncated to the first comma. example of a full screen account number that 3270 u...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Future consideration

RACF Profile list for APF authorized libraries

Utility that will check who has access (and what levels) to the APF libraries. Should list profiles that control the access as wellSensitive access HC doesn't go to the Access level (just read or update).
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

WLM initiator

WLM initiator address space will be dropped after several minutes inactive. Customer want to control the WLM initiator dropping processing, such as there is a parameter we can set to control how many minutes the WLM initiator will be dropped, or e...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Not under consideration

Enhance F OMPROUTE,OSPF,STATISTICS

Enhance the MVS Command "F OMPROUTE,OSPF,STATISTICS" to include the size of the built LSAs in the display.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow GDKUTIL input to be provided by a parm when called by a program

Might GDKUTIL accept a parameter when called by a program? Where the first three words point to areas that have the same information as those three DD statements provide? EG: WORD1 -> UPLOAD PROVIDER(S3CLOUD) CONVERT WORD2-> /johnh-21st-test...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF zERT-Plugin - Database access privileges

We created a service id to be used as zERT Network Analyzer database user ID as described in the document (https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/erin-zhang1/2020/04/03/zert-best-practices-sorting-out-the-different-zos ) ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

RMF Recording KiloBytes Transferred

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSEWCP98002: Voting Priority=2.5 +5=2 +4=1 +3=8 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=4 -1=1 Priority=2.5 (Please ignore the vote of 0.0 elsewhere) RMF should collect the kilobytes (KB) transferred for each device on an inter...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration