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Devsup Report of all parameters including defaults

Have one report to display all the fields and value for all parameters that are in DEVSUP member. Today, we have to doc the multiple places to validate fields. See use case.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 2 Planned for future release

Minimize risk of odd input in HMC settings

Defined Capacity or Group Capacity is changed on a regular basis. To minimize the risk of odd input, the new value should be checked against the old value.In case the difference is more than 50%, an appropriate warning should be displayed.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Reset the PASSASIS flag in the user profile back to 0.

When changing the Global password setting to Mixedcase but then subsequently backing out the change for whatever reason to NoMixedcase leaves the PASSASIS flag as 1 and does not reset it back to 0. While on Mixedcase some users might have changed ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Add option to accept BASE94 ct_krd token in TR34 CSNDT34B BIND service

As per AANDC protocol the KRD is sending BASE94 format ct_krd token to Remote Key Loading application. The CSNDT34B BIND service accepts only DER format. Hence the RKL application has to perform a conversion and there is a possibility that it coul...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Future consideration

Unique directory name only possible

Working for Kyndryl Resiliency Services, we start clients under z/VM. The fact is that our clients name their partitions with a too generic name, like PROD, SYST, DEV... and they need to preserve their names to run their DR scenarios. It appears t...
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Timestamp in IKED joblog

It would be immensely helpful in a troubleshooting situation to have timestamps in the job log of the IKE daemon.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

LE storage report STACK64 option new feature

The Maximum used by all concurrent threads is to count active thread number which is counted after thread initialization before thread termination and could handle the workload. We need one thread number statistics value align with the stack lifet...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Supoorted netcat utility for z/OS USS

The unix Netcat utility needs to be formally ported and supported by IBM for USS on z/OS.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

additional JESLOG SPIN options

provide several additional options to the JESLOG=SPIN parameter:- ability to spin once a week- adhoc by command- ability to keep the first bit of output
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

ISPF Extended Statistics Enhanced Display

Currently ISPF supports extended statistics but fails to display them.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

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