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SF line command should work for data set aliases

When you display a data set alias in the ISPF option 3.4 data set list and issue the SF line command, you get message: ISRU006 Not real data set name - The selected option cannot process an alias data set name. The messages and codes manual does n...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

ISPF CONTROL RFIND Passthru similar to LRSCROLL

Currently it is possible to enable passthru using CONTROL PASSTHRU for LRSCROLL. Please add RFIND as an option.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Not under consideration

Regular expression match length in ISPF EDIT/VIEW

Provide a means of extracting the string matched by an EDIT/VIEWregular expression.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Provide option to check update access before View or Edit

ISPF should provide an option to check whether a user has UPDATEaccess to a data set before allowing View or Edit.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Enhance command D XCF,ARMSTATUS to include RESTART_METHOD in use by ARM elements

It would be nice to have the RESTART_METHODs included in the output of display commands "D XCF,ARMSTATUS,DETAIL" and "D XCF,ARMSTATUS,EL=xxxxxxx". The only way to get that information today is by running the IXCMIAPU utility and look at the active...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

List of restricted words in password rules

There are some obvious passwords that are very easy to guess, and is important to avoid using them. The idea is to have a list of restricted words that cannot be part of a password and that RACF will not accept. This list must be configurable t...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

JES2 Policy to examine the job card time parameter

We use the job card TIME parameter to assign a job class so the ability to read the value will simplify our ability to reduce/eliminate JES exits.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Allow a second ATTLS rule for the inbound data connection, with SecondaryMap Off, when using RACF.

Allow a second ATTLS rule for the inbound data connection, with SecondaryMap Off, when using RACF. If using RACF, then using two different ATTLS rules for FTP is not supported and the FTP data connection would fail with ATTLS RC5023 which means: ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

Additional C functions for Linux portability

Add strnlen and wcsnlen (as on Linux) to the C runtime library.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

(Dynamic) Recalculation of JQE blocks when SPOOLNUM is increased to avoid increase of BERT resources.

Addition of several new spool volumes to a JES2 MAS unexpectedly increased the usage of BERT resources. In our case, this caused a critical BERT resource shortage. JES2 was last cold started in the year 1997. Therefor the calculated JQE block prob...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

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