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Provide SMPE GIMAPI with a facility to w

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR062511467User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE08006Title: Provide SMPE GIMAPI with a facility to wait for datasetsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS U...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Option to restrict UNIX System Services

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR062511468User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE08010Title: Option to restrict UNIX System Services authority to SMP/E workSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

SMP/E Warning Message When All PTFs are

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR062511464User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE03037Title: SMP/E Warning Message When All PTFs are NOT SELSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : M...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Suppress BPXP011I THREAD messages appear

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0505083513User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0505083513Title: Suppress BPXP011I THREAD messages appearing in the JOBLOG and SYSLOG when the TSM server terminates.Submitted By: Erik De Greef/Belgium/IBMOrigina...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Not under consideration

Process CPU time can be overstated by th

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR090712318User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSO99001Title: Process CPU time can be overstated by the BPX1GPS APISubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPR...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Symbols replacement and syntax highlight

1. During using ISPF to edit system profile or configuration, there are some symbols need to be researched, it's diffcult for reading.Solution: Input "HI SYMBOLS" in command line that replace all symbols with their real value, that the profile or ...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Make ISRKEYS table member in Japanese.

Our customer want to display KEYLIST in Japanese.So they installed ISPF japanese feature and set ISP.SISPTJPN prior to ISP.SISPTENU in logon proc concatenation.But KEYLIST doesn't display in Japanese.It is because ISP.SISPTJPN(ISRKEYS) doesn't inc...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

SuperCE compare NON-PAIRED report should have indication whether the non-paired member is an alias.

Customer is trying to run SUPERCE against system proclibs and parmlibs to determine differences including differences in actual members present (new/old) and differences within paired members. When specifyng '*' in the 'PDS Member List' field, the...
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

SuperC COMPARE SUMMARY AND STATISTICS report should support line counts over 999,999.

Current, SuperC Compare can compare datasets with more than 999,999 lines. However, the reports can only support line counts as high as 999,999.
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Add parm to force password history validation when the RACF ALTUSER NOEXPIRED command is used to change a users password.

When using the The z/OS RACF ALTUSER command (with the NOEXPIRED parameter) to change a user's password, a check against existing password histories (if they exist) is not performed. This effectively enables a circumvention of site security rules ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 6 Not under consideration

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