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Improve ISPF 3.17 by allowing CD on the command line

ISPF 3.17 (UDList) is a useful tool but navigating can be improved by allowing the user to enter a change directory command on the command line. This would mean that the command line would need to allow mixed case text to be entered.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

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

Provide a percentage status of DFHSM expirebv process completion

Currently, the expirebv process for our dfhsmuss (file mode host) environment runs for days and would be nice to see a percentage completion IE, 25%, 50%, 77% completed.
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Request ZHMC to provide API for syslog server management

Currently, syslog server can be configured in ZHMC via GUI, but it can't be configured via API, which doesn't meet the requirement of interoperation. The purpose of configuring syslog server is to aggregate ZHMC logs to logging platform, which usu...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Add a parameter to control the time allowed between IPLs in different CPCs (message ILR031A)

Hello, (We use z/OS 2.5 and GDPS 4.6) We use GDPS to perform DR scenarios. In our DR scenario testing, we've mastered the process and can now perform the whole process in less than 20 minutes. We currently DR the Production systems in 21-22 minute...
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CFRM Policy Editor to Model Impact of a CF Being Unavailable

The primary reason for using Parallel Sysplex is to improve application availability. A key element to achieving that objective is avoid Single Points of Failure. One aspect of that is controlling placement of CF structures in relation to the syst...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 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

DFSMS, SREAD OVER VOLUMES depending upon volume-status and free-space

'Spread over volumes' allocated always on the volumes at the beginning of a storagegroup, regardless of volume-status : QUINEW,ENABLE and free-space. If it supported the behavior of primary allocation over multiple volumes no longer differs from o...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

RACF Profiles with WARNING: Enable restriction of maximum WARNING access level for better security

Current situation:RACF-Profiles have the ability of WARNING-Option, which gives a ICH408-message, but allow the access regardless of the access rights of the User. Our idea is to enhance the WARNING option with a maximum access level parameter,lik...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under 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