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Expanded support allowing symbol substitution inside quoted fields.

Requesting the ability to code system and/or JCL symbols inside a quoted field and have their values substituted. Today this is not possible. Consider the following scenario://EXPORT EXPORT SYMLIST=* //TEST SET DIR='/part1/part2/part3/&SYSCLON...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Future consideration

ISPF Table TBHIDE and TBFLIP functions

When developing an ISPF application using tables the ability to filter the table display can significantly improve the user experience. To filter today requires that rows be deleted to remove them from the display and then added back when the filt...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

RACF Profile BPX.SAFFASTPATH

Make BPX.SAFFASTPATH more granular (e.g., add userids and access) or add another profile with a userid and access authority to USS resources. Access to UNIX services and resources (e.g. IPC queues) requires many, many SAF Router (IRRSXT00) calls f...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Create a spreadsheet dur SMF 113

In an old version of RMF under the Windows application there is an IBM RMF Performance Management application. Under this application there was the HIS and CSV Reporting which analyzed the SMF 113. It seems that IBM with the new versions, IBM deci...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Not under consideration

Provide a Wizard in ISMF Panels to create the necessary details to set up OAM

It would be helpful if ISMF had a WIZARD function to help generate the details needed to setup OAM. OAM requires SMS (ACS code and Constructs), DB2 Tables, and OAM CBROAMxx Parmlim, IGDSMSxx parmlib to be set up. A Wizard could provide the structu...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 2 Not under consideration

Automatic RACF SWITCH database command if a logical error occurs

The RACF should identify a severe logical error in your database and make the automatic switch database, as happens the switch automatically when the an I/O error occurs. The switch database can be to the backup database or another.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

HMC LDAP Enhancement with different DirectoryEntryLocation

We use LDAP to authenticate the users to the hmc. We have 2 LDAP Servers with different Directory Entry Location. At the HCM User Management it is possible to define a Backup Host Name, but it is not possible to assing to the Backup Host Name a di...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

Avoid a user who needs to restart an lpar from operating on the CPC

If a user who has to do actions against some LPAR objects (as "Load", "Activate" or "Deactivate") has access to object "CPC" can do any of this actions against the whole CPC.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Not under consideration

Allow user to set their first password phrase when the correct password is supplied

We would like all our mainframe users to have passwords longer than 8 characters, so we are now looking into getting users to use password phrase instead of password. However RACF currently only allows RACF administrators (or authorized personnel)...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

JSON parser

JSON parser toolkit does not allow the creation of an array as the root object which is a valid JSON construct. It is possible to create a root array object by parsing "[]" but the create service does not allow additional objects to be added to a ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 3 Future consideration

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