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HILITE PLI - End-of-line Comment // support

My programming colleague is using the "//" end of line comment indicator. I think this was an enhancement with the 5.3 release of EPLI:The character // specifies that the rest of a line is a comment. See “Delimiters and operators” on page6. Actual...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Planned for future release

The user must have the ability to keep a dataset in zEDC compressed format during a copy or a transfer of the dataset.

I would like to have a way to request access method to avoid decompression of a zedc compressed dataset when using it, for example via a jcl option. This would avoid unnecessary compression - decompression when dataset are accessed by product doin...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Planned for future release

System Logger offload monitoring should create a diagnostic dump upon detection of an offload delay.

System Logger offload monitoring provides notification of delays in log stream offload processing with the goal of allowing an installation to take action to prevent log streams filling to capacity, which would result in the failure of IXGWRITE re...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Planned for future release

Create new "last login timestamp" attribute in LDAP for entries

RACF provides an attribute, LAST-ACCESS, which is mapped to racfLastAccess in SDBM which can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.glpa200/tivrff.htm#racfcf This searchable attribute returns th...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

IDCAMS DEFINE MODEL SMS parameters

In an IDCAMS DEFINE, if we specify a MODEL, it would be great if the SMS parameters (DATACLASS, ...) of the model be used.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

ISPF Edit highlighting for R

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for the R language.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

Fixing the CICS-LE Recovery Loops

When there is an overlay of either an LE or CICS control block in a CICS environment, CICS & LE can get into a loop trying to abend/recover from the failure.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Planned for future release

DFHSM FRBACKUP - Update function to return rc=04 when a Volume Definition in the Source Storage Group is has no devn assigned

Currently when the HSM FRBACKUP command is executed, HSM will invoke the UCBLOOK macro against each volume in the source Storage Group(s). If this macro returns a rc=04 because there is no device currently assigned to the volume serial, the FRBACK...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Planned for future release

ITDS LDAP Sever should not run in supervisor state while calling R_admin()

ITDS LDAP Server calls R_admin() in supervisor state.This results in ignoring the IRR.RADMIN.* profiles in class FACILITY. See "IBM Tivoli Directory Server Administration and Use for z / OS," SC23-6788,Chapter 17. Accessing RACF informationand"Sec...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Planned for future release

IEBCOPY Member Generations - Add/Merge option

With the new IEBCOPY CPYGRP GENS=ALL the REPLACE option will first delete the copy member and generations from the target and then perform the copy. That eliminates the member and generations in the target which is counter intuitive considering th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Planned for future release

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