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Enhance LISTDSI to support Relative GDGs

Enhance LISTDSI to support Generation Data Sets with relative GDG.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Create ISPF Panel (User Interface) for Web Enablement Toolkit

Create a simple ISPF Panels (User Interface) for Web toolkit JSON API's. This helps customers to play with JSON data without writing a separate program to use our api's to parse the JSON data. Example: User can just provide Sequential file as inpu...
6 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Allow user to update config of SSH CLI container for security-related control

Currently, for the SSH CLI container embedded in zCX address space, users are not allowed to update any parms for the SSH server and this will only pick the default Openssh configs for its execution, meaning clients are allowed to use some old and...
8 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

[zOSMF] Setting the threshold in Resource Monitor

I want to threshold monitoring using the resource monitor.In the current function, difficult to understand confirming whether or not the value is appropriate. When I did the demonstration of resource monitor for customers, we got opinions, such as...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RMF 3 Future consideration

Allow simplification with VARY XCF,target,OFFLINE with NOCONFIRM option to bypass IXC371D confirmation

Customer wants to ask IBM to consider enhacement with VARY XCF,target,OFFLINE command without the IXC371D confirmation by accepting the NOCONFIRM optional parm. Customer was tryin to take out an LPAR from the plex to simulate unexpected outage. Th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 5 Not under 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.
8 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

ISPF does not record the alias name in SMF14ALIAS when accessing datasets via their alias

When browsing or editing datasets under ISPF, if the dataset is accessed through an alias, ISPF uses the real name to access it, rather than the alias. Other allocation services, such as JCL, use the alias. In z/OS 2.1, a new field in the SMF type...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

RRS notification that there are a number of stale RM entries in its RM data logstream

Once a Resource Manager has registered to RRS, it's RM name persists in the RRS RM Data logstream. If an exploiter no longer uses that RM name, or if that exploiter is no longer active, the RM name entry will remain in the logstream unless explici...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

Man page for zfsadm - enhance

The zfsadm man page is a good start but needs to be enhanced thus: 1. Enable 'man -k .' to find information within it2. Expand to support the various zfsadm sub-commands (e.g. config) - suggest following the example of the ssh man pages which have...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Documentation 5 Future consideration

BUFNO calculation for Extended format sequential datasets

BUFNO are calculated according to the following formula: n—Extended format but not compressed format and not LBI (n = 2 × blocks per track × number of stripes)1—Compressed format data set, PDSE, SYSIN, SYSOUT, SUBSYS, UNIX files2—Block size > =...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Future consideration

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