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z/OS

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JES2 - More granular Security Controls

According to the most current documentation related to zOS 3.1 to control input to your system, it is only possible to control job class usage. See documentation for reference. However, the job class is not the only attribute that shall be control...
11 days ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

Edit line command to insert blank lines

Faster and fewer key strokes
21 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

Write message from JES2 policy to joblog

JES2 policies can be used to force installation requirements like accouting information.The user should be informed that the job does not meet the guidelines especially if it is canceled by a poicy. And a good place to do this is joblog.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 4 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

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

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

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...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Under review

Add SDM recovery when HSM cancels TCT activity

On z/OS, this idea would be a design change to add SDM (system data mover) recovery when HSM (hierarchal storage manager) cancels TCT (tape cloud tiering) activity so that ANTMAIN does not need to be canceled. The SDM recovery should clean up all ...
12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Submitted

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

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...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration