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ISPF Edit highlighting for R

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for the R language.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

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...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow users to issue RACF commands directly through LDAP.

Please add a feature that allows SDBM users to issue a RACF command directly via LDAP. This feature would allow users to modify or remove TSO & CICS segments via LDAP
7 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

Prevent the user to activate all RACF cdt classes trying to list the active options

The way RACF is designed today, it doesn't allow an user to filter sort of options it has in effect. For example, if I want to list only the active classes, there isn't a filter for that suggesting I should use SETROPTS LIST to list everything. Th...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Move ICSF cell pools above the bar

If a high enough burst of ATTLS requests comes in at once, ICSF cell pools can grow rapidly enough and fill CSF private storage. This results in ABEND878s and TCPIP leaving the sysplex group. At this point, an IPL is likely desired. Moving these c...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future 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.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Function requirement - To support TRANSKEY+WRAPENH3 keyword in KGUP utility

PCI-PIN spec defined the key storage need to use key block format when store key tokens. IBM announced the WRAPENH3 format to comply PCI-PIN requirement which should support different ways to store key as WRAPENH3 format, including Key Generator U...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 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

ISPF Edit highlighting for ACS routines

The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for ACS routines.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 1 Not under consideration