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LISTCAT dates should provide dates in ISO8601 format YYYY-MM-DD

LISTCAT output dates (creation, expiration or lbackup) of an entry are only displayed in Julian format. It should be very useful an additional ISO8601 format as well. Kind regards Konstantinos
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Under review

Introduce RMM defaults table (DEFTABLE) operand that can request DFSMSrmm record the data set details only for the first file on a tape volume.

The EDG_EXIT100 parameter list has a PL100_CAN_IGNORE_FILE2_TON value that can be used to request that DFSMSrmm record the data set details only for the first file on a tape volume. This is useful to help minimize the overall size of the RMM Contr...
21 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

SMF record to report for rolled off GDGs

GDGs that roll off the base should have an SMF record to show that it was removed. Currently we have no way of showing audit when and who caused the GDG to be removed. DASD datasets do have other SMF record types to show the delete, but CA1 tapes ...
21 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Under review

Create a SMF security violation for failures on BPX.SUPERUSER so installations can use it to detect possible hacks or attacks.

Please refer to case: TS017997103 for additional information Our intent was to audit the usage of the "su" command, and subsequent access granted once a user has switched user. Primarily we want to audit the "su" to ROOT userid. Thinking we could ...
3 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Under review

how to identify the JVM's type as z/OS Connect when z/OS Connect is running with Java17.

Our goal is how to identify the jvm type as z/OS Connect when z/OS Connect is running with Java17.Current method used is to examine the USS callable Service BPX1GTH to scan the returned values. The returned values are truncated, and the item searc...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / USS 0 Under review

Provide direct dialog manager support for creating new logical screens.

It would make it easier to create customized environments.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Under review

Enhance the syscall readfile to understand file codepage

Currently readfile only appears to understand files that are tagged with IBM-1047. Files tagged with ISO8859-1 are returned by readfile without translation and are thus unreadable on the EBCDIC platform. readfile is a powerful tool for the rexx de...
3 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

C fopen() SMS attributes to create a file

We use Zfile class to access Z/OS file using Java. Zfile use fopen to manage Z/OS files. Unfortunatelly fopen() C primitive doesn't have MGMTCLAS, DATACLAS, STORCLAS SMS JCL attributes. So with Zfile, i can use SMS attributes to allocate an SMS fi...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / LE 0 Under review

Edit line command to insert blank lines

Faster and fewer key strokes
2 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Under review

JES2EDS : add card SYSTCPD to specifiy stack affinity

Hello, Our TCPIP is the default stack and the RESOLVER has this definition. We would use JES2EDS on secondary stack TCPIPA. Because our z/OSMF uses stack TCPIPA. Usually we need to add a SYSTCPD DD on the proc to force the use of this specific fil...
4 months ago in z/OS / JES2 4 Under review

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