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z/OS

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ISPF Using Shared personal lists

Our customer wants to use "Shared personal lists" so all users have a single source for often used data sets F.E. AAA.DFP.JOB.CNTL. BBB.TSO.JOB.CNTL CCC.COVER.LETTERS.TXT and so on. The idea is to have a company wide list of 20-30 data sets which ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

BGP Protocol on z/OS

We would like to have z/OS TCP/IP (OMPROUTE) support BGP protocol.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

In z/OSMF workflow, the users should have the flexibility and choice to decide whether the job card should be added

To provide the users the flexibility and choices.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

In z/OSMF workflow, should support the manual intervention(especially for the abnormal jobs) without suspending the engine

We have good understanding of our jobs, so should let the users decide whether to suspend the workflow engine for the manual intervention.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

RACF protection of the sub-keywords of FCTOPPRCPRIMARY for the COPY, DEFRAG and CONSOLIDATE functions

Currently, it is only possible to protect the main keyword, FCTOPPRCPRIMARY, of the COPY, DEFRAG and CONSOLIDATE functions using RACF profiles, e.g.STGADMIN.ADR.COPY.FCTOPPRCP. We would also like to protect the sub-keywords of the FCTOPPRCPRIMARY ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 4 Not under consideration

TN3270 server logging of failed LU Pool Lookups

Level set: We have no default pools for our TN3270 server; all incoming connections must match a specific pool. If a connection comes in and fails because it does not match a pool, it is very difficult to detect, even using SMF 119 records. We wou...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Need command to report same information provided by HCD option 2.5.

We would like a z/OS system command that would return the same information provided by HCD option 2.5. Part of this information is returned by the D IOS,CONFIG command, but the activation scope (are HW and/or SW activations allowed) is not current...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Not under consideration

Allow APPN to be returned via the NMI API

Enhancement to allow for APPN data to be monitored and returned using the Network Management Interface (NMI) via a TCPIP socket.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

DIGTCERT owner change

Set the owner of DIGTCERT profiles to either IBMUSER or SYS1 when they are created, or provide a means to change the owner afterwards.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Use SQL Parameter Markers for TDS on z/OS

Currently the TDS server does not user Parameter Markers in the SQL statements. This leads to inefficient DB2 access plans being generate because each statement comes across as "unique". Please convert to using SQL parameter markers.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 2 Planned for future release

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