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IDCAMS PRINT translate lowercase EBCDIC characters

The output of an IDCAMS PRINT job includes both the raw data in printed hexadecimal and also in a "translated" section that displays capital English and special characters from the EBCDIC code page. In the current environment, it would be very hel...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

RACF Granular Control for encryption of basic and large format datasets

Allow RACF Dataset Profiles with an encryption key in the DFP segment to provide a flag for whether basic or large format datasets should be encrypted.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

JES2 Policy - enhancement

z/OS2.4 has brought up great function of JES2 Policy however there are many fields which are not modifiable and bring a constrain in the way if we like to replace our jes2 exits. One of the example is SYSOUTGROUP where XMITTER field is not mention...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

List all SEGMENTS from LISTUSER or LISTGRP command

Using RACF Commands LISTUSER and LISTGRP there is no way to list all the segments on the User ID or Group without listing each segment name on the command. The request is to allow the use of ALL on the LISTUSER or LISTGRP command to list all segme...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

zCX-Automate the change of IP address for the zCX instance for DR Testing purposes

We are looking for a way to automate the change of the zCX Instance IP address for DR Testing purposes where we change our DR IP addresses when performing DR network isolated tests.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

auditing of certificate usage

Provide a means of auditing usage of specific certificates.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Remove requirement for SZERO=YES

When VSAM was first introduced, the only way, without requiring changes to every ATTACH in the address space, to share user storage was to use subpool zero. Sharing subpool zero has unintended consequences for a task that (ABENDed) ended without f...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Future consideration

Implement -h (human readable) option for file related commands (ls, df, du ..)

hi there, since we don't get the luxury of GNU Tools on z/OS USS i would at least expect an option for human readable output for the basic file related commands (ls, df, du ..). this is something *NIX distributions got decades ago, why not USS? Tr...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

Add more specific archiving policies or workflows

By creating archiving concepts for configuration items, a viable archiving policy is mandatory. Today you have to choose between retention days (x)or a specified number of copies to keep. This forces the user to choose between two different types ...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Extension of the audit feature to cover individual content and download

Auditing is an important feature of IBM Change Tracker. Today, audits logs can be displayed manually by the Change Tracker Auditor. The audit information will be displayed by selecting menu icon on the corresponding dataset and click the “View Aud...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

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