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Suppress SDSF ULOG panel after z/OS V2.5

SDSF ULOG display was changed by z/OS V2.5 following. <V2.4>The users who do not authorized READ access to resource ISFCMD.ODSP.ULOG.jesx could not display ULOG panel. <V2.5> The users became to display ULOG panel whether authorized or...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Misleading e-tag mismatch after uploading to sequential data set

Create a sequential data set with RECFM=VB. In this case I created a data set with my username (4 characters long) as the high-level qualifier: USER.TEST.PS Use the z/OSMF API endpoint to write to a data set (PUT request, /zosmf/restfiles/ds/<d...
22 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

RACF validation of external generated JWTs with fully OIDC support

Currently, RACF can only validate JWTs based on the IDTDATA definitions within RACF itself. In times of multi-platform solutions and higher security demands this is no longer adequate. Modern architectures consinsts of at least front ends and mayb...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Support logical PARMLIB concatenation for ANTMIN00

Currently, ANTMIN00 PARMLIB member has to reside in SYS1.PARMLIB or a member with sysname in SYS1.ANTMAIN.PARMLIB. The better solution would be that ANTMIN00 can be located in the logical PARMLIB concatenation. So, please make it possible to locat...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

Use EMCS console which are not Userid dependent in workflows

The workflow "Configure AI Framework for IBM zOS" step 4 uses a EMCS console which name contains the userid ending with "CN". This means that one have to create a special user which is ending with "CN". Creating a new userid is not a as simple as ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Future consideration

Extension of "Manage System Time" tab overview with NTP configuartion on z16 oscillator cards

Beginning with IBM z16, the STP physical connection to the time servers (PTP or Network Time Protocol (NTP)) is no longer established through the HMC. The time servers are connected now directly to the CEC (bypasses the SE connection).So each of t...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Future consideration

SSHD Support for zVM OS

SSHD support directly in VM would allow for modern tooling to connect and utilise the platform. Version control of config files via GIT for example.
26 days ago in z/VM 1 Submitted

Rust language

“Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering, Android Platform Tools & Libraries, in RustNation UK 2024. Now that there is Open X...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / LE 10 Future consideration

Better control of STACK and HEAP allocation in CICS.

We want better control of the AUTODST parameter behaviour in CICS. We want to be able to control the maximum initial and incremental sizes. We also want to be able to control the percentage of the expected total sizes that goes to initial and incr...
27 days ago in z/OS / LE 1 Submitted

GDS_RECLAIM should delete/define the GDS versus reusing the same create date

Currently, when you turn on GDS_RECLAIM the system will reuse an existing GDS if it is in DEFERRED status. This is a great idea except for the fact that the process keeps the original create date. In one instance we had GDS' that were created in F...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

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