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Extend CEEENTRY to support Debug Tool "Delayed Debugging"

Actually Language Environment Assembler Programs do not support Debug Tools Delayed (or Deferred) debugging due to the fact that the CEEENTRY macro does not register for "New Program Entry Point Event" as is done for LE Enabled COBOL, PLI and C/C+...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

request for a utility to copy from USS to MVS GDG

Request for a utility to copy files from USS to Z/OS MVS side
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Restrict access depending on the system service used to access a resource.

A resource, usually a dataset but it can be a general resource, can be accessed through different services. The idea relates to the ability of accessing the resource through TSO, for example, but not using a JOB (or NetView, or other systems servi...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Tool to simulate access to resources.

Administrators and support staff usually need to refine and diagnose RACF controlled access. Therefore they should have available a tool to specify the conditions when an access is to happen and get a detailed RACF response.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ICSF to support dynamic Enable and Disable for ICSF TKDS

Current and recent releases of ICSF provide a function to Enable and Disable dynamic updates to ICSF CKDS & PKDS datasets - I believe via PANELID CSFACF00. This function is missing for ICSF TKDS dataset. It would be nice to have consistency a...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

Suppress DD-level accounting information in the SMF type 30 EXCP section for individual DDs.

JES2 encountered ABENDS878-10. If there had been such an option to suppress DD-level accounting information in the SMF type 30 EXCP section for individual DDs, the ABENDS878-10 problem could have been prevented.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 9 Future consideration

LE individual modules CEEROPT and CEEUOPT should be treated the same

CEEROPT and CEEUOPT allow for the passage of LE options at the individual job/application level. However, currently CEEROPT and be loaded from STEPLIB while CEEUOPT requires that it be linked with the application/program. CEEROPT is for region lev...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

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over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Not under consideration

Empowering conditional access to general resources through privileged programs

Some resources different from DATASET also should be accessed through allowed programs. This would allow a refined access to some sensitive resources such as those under SURROGAT (for example, USER1 can submit a job in the name of USER2 only if th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Allowing program name masking in conditional access to DATASETS

Multiple program names are allowed in the parameter WHEN(PROGRAM(...)) in the PERMIT command. However this is not practical if many programs starting with the same first characters are to be specified in the list or if a new program, also starting...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration