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z/OS

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zCX: Allow specification of TZ variable during provisioning / same time zone for all users

According to the zCX Users Guide every user can set TZ= environment variable to set the time zone. This would be required after every login or by changing the login script. This has to be done on a user base. It would be better if a central TZ= en...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Add a last login timestamp attribute for z/OS LDAP.

The z/OS LDAP server would be greatly enhanced by including a password policy operational attribute called pwdLastLogin which contains a dated timestamp of the last time an entry has logged in to the server.
7 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

ZOSMF recursive workflow

Requesting to add feature for recursively calling workflow steps.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Job Holded/Released statuses in z/OSMF REST services

Job response document contains only 3 statuses "INPUT", "ACTIVE", "OUTPUT" now. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=zjri-json-document-specifications-zos-jobs-rest-interface-requests But we can also hold a job and job will be waiting for r...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OS FTP PROXY OPEN support over TLS

We've recently started to enforce TLS encryption for z/OS FTP connections. Some of our jobs use the FTP "proxy" command to request that a dataset be transferred from one z/OS FTP server to another z/OS FTP server. However, when this is done after ...
2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Slayte AHA Test Aug 26

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 08/26/2024 Submitter Name: Slayte Admin USER Submitter Email: admin@slayte.com Description: Test
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Future consideration

Consistent gdkdel response across cloud providers when object not found

AWS returns HTTP 204 (No content) for an object delete when the object is not found. The 204 HTTP response is a successful HTTP response (200 series) and due to that, gdkdel returns its successful return code 0. The gdkdel API documents the follow...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Under review

Use SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK on libraries other than the current PARMLIB

We can use the SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK command to check our BPXPRMxx member in the current PARMLIB concatenation. However, most errors occur during IPL time with an updated version of these members, which might be on a different data set or even a dif...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Enhance TBDISPL to enable Panel REXX Access to the Table

Enhance the TBDISPL service so that the table data on the ISPF Panel is accessible, and modifiable, using Panel REXX. This would eliminate the need for dynamic panels/table in over 50% (perhaps 90%+) of the use cases.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Software Update tasks needs to wait for migrated datasets to be recalled instead of abend

z/OSMF Software Update tasks needs to wait for migrated datasets to be recalled instead of abend right away when it finds a dataset it needs, to be migrated.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 6 Future consideration