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ICETOOL DISPLAY function and HEADER parameter

With ICETOOL you can do a list with DISPLAY function you can have a HEADER each x pages or NOHEADER or HEADER(NONE). It can be usefull to generate a file with only one header. In this way i can generate a CSV file for sending to another software. ...
18 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 0 Future consideration

Listuser command allows for 'enumeriation' of valid userids

As seen below. When one does a "LU <EXISTING USER>" you get the message : "NOT AUTHORIZED TO LIST IBMUSER"When the user it not present on the system, you get the message "UNABLE TO LOCATE USER ENTRY NOTHERE" It would be better if the reply i...
7 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Would like z/OSMF Deploy to create the USS directories and mount the zFS files for the SMP/E target datasets defined in the DDDEF's.

In the past when you order IBM software the old ServerPac service would prompt you for the USS path and the zFS files. z/OSMF does this also. Then as one of the last stepsthe product would run a job to create the USS directories and would also mou...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Media manager interfaces should provide feedback as to whether writes are actually using zHyperWrite or not

The media manager interfaces don't give enough feedback about whether zHyperWrite is working or not. They only tell a caller that a data-set is zHyperWrite enabled, or not, during initial connect to that data-set. zHyperWrite state can easily chan...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Media Manager 1 Future consideration

Bundle python with the z/OS base system

Including Python as a part of z/OS will offer several advantages, similar to REXX being bundled with z/OS. Python is an extremely versatile programming language with a wide range of applications, from web development to data analysis, artificial i...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / General 1 Future consideration

Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Future consideration

DFSMShsm Update delete empty container messages to reflect the function it is for, migration or dump.

TCT cloud users currently see messages regarding the deletion of empty containers for migration and for dump. These messages are issued when the corresponding function is running. It would be helpful if the messages contained the function keyword ...
12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

add a TN3270 configuration option to disable the check for Server name & Certificate name to match

Configurable Option to disable Verify Certificate We have encountered a situation with our TKEs at RBC. We had LPAR site certificates included in the TN3270 ring before and removed thus only TN3270 user certificate is in the keyring. More specific...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Add sudo to the OEF

sudo is the ideal way to invoke authorized (superuser) tools under OMVS and should be included with OEF since it isn't provided as part of the IBM z/OS USS set of tools.
6 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Future consideration

Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

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