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Provide RECLEN parameter for ISPF Service 'VIEW'

The ISPF services EDIT and BROWSE offer an option to display a z/OS UNIX file with a specific LRECL via the RECLEN parameter.Unfortunately this option is missing for the VIEW service. For the VIEW interface service (VIIF), however, there is this p...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

RACF control to allow or disallow copying of data from an encrypted dataset to an unencrypted dataset

Today if a person has access to a key label there are no controls in place to limit their ability to copy an encrypted dataset to a dataset with no DFP segment in it's RACF dataset profile. When this is the case the dataset is unencrypted when wri...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

DFSMS - Change listcat to allow quick compare of size for compressed files

When doing a quick compare of the compress ratio using listcat it would be of great benefit to have the USER-DATA-SIZE and COMP-USER-DATA-SIZE stacked and not on the same line. To do a quick compare one has to copy paste the numbers (e.g. to a not...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

provide Display SHCDS command with results that go to SYSLOG for automation.

SHCDS commands work both in batch and in the TSO/E foreground, but the output isn't available in SYSLOG. Automation around SMSVSAM/RLS issues would be easier if we could drive standard z/os commands such as /D SHCDS xxx and have output go to SYSLOG.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 4 Future consideration

Graphic interface for backup/restore USS files with DFSMShsm or "-pick" option similar to TSM-client

Additionally to the commando interface for backup/restore of USS-files with DFSMShsm it would be very useful for endusers, who use only ssh-connect to USS on z/OS, to have any kind of graphish interface to backup/restore of USS-files similar to TS...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 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.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF create your own category on left bar

At the moment it is not possible to create your own category for your personal links on the left bar of the z/OSMF panel.You can only create a new link for a given category or create it as a "no category" button.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Not under consideration

HWTJCREN: Support unnamed root arrays in JSON parser

JSON allows for unnamed arrays as root, e.g. [] is perfectly correct. However, the Web Enablement toolkit currently rejects the request to create an unnamed array as root with HWTJ_JCREN_ENTRYVALUETYPE_INV. It should accept the request without a n...
5 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

New JES2 policy to replace JES2 EXIT 6 functions like security checking for TIME parameter.

Hi We don’t want users to specify TIME=nnnn/NOLIMIT on the exec or job statement without proper authorization. So the idea is to check if a user specifies TIME=nnnn/NOLIMIT in his JCL and then check via the “AuthorityCheck” function a RACF profile...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

How to print the $HASP138 SPIN message written to CEEMSG to SYSLOG or JESMSGLG?

We split the CEEMSG DD of CICS with the following line:// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (UNALLOC, 10M)==> ceemsg output:08.38.16 S0310063 İHASP138 CEEMSG SPIN HAS OCCURRED BECAUSE OF LINE COUNT or we use "time":// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (U...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

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