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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...
11 months ago in z/OS / LE 4 Future consideration

Support X-IBM-Dsname-Encoding header when listing data sets and data set members

Some mainframe developers may use a different encoding when entering the name for a new data set or data set member. However, it seems that z/OSMF converts these names behind the scenes to use the IBM-1047 encoding, so characters in the name are c...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

DSFS: Automatic CCSID conversation for selected datasets/members

We'd love a enhancement in DSFS that it could do automatic conversation of datasets/members when they are used with DSFS. For example: dataset.name(member) -> Terminal emulator 1141 for Germany /dsfs/txt/dataset.name/member --> automatically...
3 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Syntax check for configuration member

It would be great to have an option to verify syntax of configuration members, namely ATCCON, ATCSTR, to prevent any possible issues to be found out only during IPLs, which are often done during weekends and resolution of such issues can be slowed...
2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Under review

Add Ability to install new products into existing CSI with z/OSMF Software Management

We would need a way to install new products into an existing SMP CSI_ using z/OSMF Software Management.For us, it would be sufficient, if z/OSMF under the covers installs the product into a temporary new CSI and then offers the option to merge tha...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

Override CFRM preference list on the SETXCF START command

Whenever there is the need of reallocating structures over the CFs available on a Sysplex the command SETXCF START,REBUILD,STRNAME is used. This command if used with the option LOC=OTHER will honor the CFRM preference list on the active policy. Th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

DFSORT AI Engine

Customer runs lots of DFSORT workload and often has to tune its parameters according to the input file characteristics , amount of memory available and other factors. This can be a cumbersome task, error prone and sometimes cause inefficient use o...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

Have Grafana sign the RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin

Our organization does not allow the installation of Grafana plugins that are not signed as it poses a security risk, and I imagine that other organizations are the same. In order for us to make use of the plugin it needs to get signed by Grafana.
4 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

ACEE Modification Detection events to SMF

Having an ACEE modification event generate an SMF record would be helpful to an organization's SOC team or any SIEM solution. Today the only way to generate an actionable alert is to roll your own automation and build an actionable event based on ...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Sequential files having more than 32k record length

We have to process sequential files with more than 32k record length. The max lrecl we can specify when allocating sequential files is 32K. Kind regards Konstantinos
26 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Submitted