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Provide direct dialog manager support for creating new logical screens.

It would make it easier to create customized environments.
14 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

JES2 Performance Enhancements

In order to improve the robustness of JES2 during heavy workload processing spikes, whether intentional or unintentional, we would like to make the following proposal: An AI solution for anomaly detection with corresponding definable actions Addit...
21 days ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

z/OSMF store result into log file

We had the situation that an ISV software trys to call an z/OSMF REST API (dataset service). The ISV product only returned HTTP 500. In the z/OSMF logs, also only the HTTP 500 was visible. The error that was seen within z/OS was: ICH408 for $LIBPA...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

SMS attributes to govern how CSM should manage replicated data and SGC.

SMS managed data is organized by attributes defined in storage class, data class etc. However, there is no management of data at a global mirror target. SMS and CSM should coordinate such that replicated storage pools are backed up by safe guarded...
8 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Submitted

make HMC screen "Users and Tasks" data visible to bcpii or some other API

follow up to ZOS-I-4400 We had a problem where a user locked out CBU's by leaving the change model screen. IBM in TS017175982 said that we could look in the Users and Tasks screen to see which HMC and user had done that. We would like the informat...
20 days ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 1 Submitted

Support more than 4 Subchannel Sets in each LCSS

With the plan of defining a MM 4-Site disk topology, the base devices of each copy of disk will occupy all the 4 Subchannel Sets currently supported leaving no Subchannel Set for defining Alias devices. Therefore to support a MM 4-site disk topolo...
21 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Submitted

ISPF editor: New move command to move a column in file/member.

We want to move columns to another position. Example: Command ===> MVC 7 8 13 Move columns 7-8 to position 13 Example for input 11 12 13 1421 22 23 2431 32 33 2541 42 44 45 Output of MVC 7 8 13: 11 12 14 1321 22 24 2331 32 25 3341 42 45 44 Kind...
28 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

JES2 - More granular Security Controls

According to the most current documentation related to zOS 3.1 to control input to your system, it is only possible to control job class usage. See documentation for reference. However, the job class is not the only attribute that shall be control...
19 days ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

z/VM RACF userid - TCPIP pair record (console/api/query)

Dear developers.Could you please provide API/Exit/Query for TCPIP connection matching RACF userid ?FTP server provide: SM FTPSERVE QUERY (I can trap and match IP-userid)Telent has also such option: NETSTAT telnetfor LDAP I need at least QUERY like...
26 days ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

Add a -force-textmode Option to IBM Encryption Facility to Ensure ASCII to EBCDIC Conversion on Decryption

Currently, the -t option in IBM Encryption Facility (IBMEF) does not enforce ASCII to EBCDIC conversion when decrypting files, unless the original encryption process explicitly used the "--textmode" option in GnuPG. This behavior creates an issue ...
27 days ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Submitted

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