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Add MVS system symbolic support to FTP.DATA

Please consider adding MVS system symbolic support to FTP.DATA.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Improve CSM Administrative Usability (settings, monitoring and tuning)

This requirement describes the need to improve various usability aspects of managing z/OS CS CSM storage, in terms of CSM settings, monitoring and tuning. Setting the appropriate values for CSM settings (vs. using system defaults) for a z/OS syste...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable TCPIP command output echo in JESMSGLG

Provide a way to configure TCPIP to not duplicate output from display commands into the JESMSGLG DD for my started task. This could be an optional parameter to disable that echoing of command/output. Example - if I do a D TCPIP,,N,DEV command from...
over 12 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Asking about unsupported DSM for device optimizer Exinda

System: Optimizer ExindaActor: Device uses advanced algorithms and data analysis to optimize the network.Description: Our team is going to integrate this device's log to Qradar. However, at present, this brand is not supported in a Qradar DSM docu...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Fail to open RRDS (V) in C language program

It is failed to open a RRDS(V: variable record length), would you share me some experience on this, or help me to know what's wrong and how to deal with it? The "C" program is submitted through a JCL job in MVS. And someone else met with a similar...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 5 Not under consideration

Provide an interface to regular expression processing for LE conforming languages

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSLANG12001; Voting Priority=2.6 +5=1 +4=4 +3=10 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=2 -1=1 Priority=2.6 IBM should provide an interface to regular expression processing from LE conforming languages that does not require th...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

Add Where used in VIEW DETAILS display of IPSEC rules

When we do a View details it would be great if we can get another spot in the PDF that says what LPARS this is being used in as part of the report
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

modification to ceatool

When I run ceatool, I receive the error message : CEA0751E Function delete incident failed, return code -1, reason code 0x04480343, diagnostic words [0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00]. CEA0703I /bin/ceatool ended with errors.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 4 Future consideration

HSM Duplex volume to different esoteric

We need to all HSM to write the primary volume and duplex volumes to different esoterics so that we can select different units to choose which VTL a copy is written on.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 4 Not under consideration

BPXWUNIX to function with binary input streams

Encoding the same input data EFBE8AEFBE9FEFBE9D0A - we get two different results: 776K776f776dCg = (good case) or 776K776f776dChU = (bad case)
over 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration