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Mixedcase option

The Open Source UNIX standard is to use case sensitivity. However, it would improve z/OS OpenSSH usability if group names were treated without case sensitivity (similar to how user names are treated) when processing directives such as AllowGroups ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Future consideration

Change vm.max_map_count on zCX Kernel

To allow running a cluster of ELK (ElasticSearch) containers in a zCX configuration with SWARM, it is necessary to adjust the vm.max_map_count parameter in /etc/sysctl.conf from 65530 to 262144 on zCX Linux system. Without this adjustment, when st...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Provide mechanism to view security environment of every address space in System.

Need utility to view security environment of address spaces. This should include as a MINIMUM the RACF user assigned to the address space.However, other items such as the readable items in the ACEE, atrributes (SPECIAL, OPERATIONS and so on), POE,...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

ISPF Edit highlighting for R

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

zERT - Simple data import

With the current import UI for zERT one must specify all possible Datasets manually. If you have many Datasets it is very cumbersome to add all of them. Allow generic naming's to import for example.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 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

An ABEND in OCEOV Recovery May Lead to an ABEND0C4-11 in DADSM SCRATCH, RENAME, or PARTREL

As described in 87671,L6Q,000 PMR - we have encountered SVC catalog dumps. Upon analysis, they seem to be related to APAR OA33829.This problem is described in OA33829 which has been closed as a suggestion to be fixed in a future release.From IBM: ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Planned for future release

To have the ODTitle field as an option to the OFLDS

Our printing team manages output utilizing the ODTitle among other fields which was available with the Q command in z/OS V2.4 but removed in V.5 in favor of the JDS panel. They utilize the O panel more than the JDS panel to accomplish their workload.
3 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Missing RACF Statistic (last connect date) when logging on with SESSION=OMVSSRV and SESSION=APPCTP

We need to monitor, if RACF users are active. So we verify the last connect date of user's default group every night. When last connect data is older than nn days, our night job will revoke this user profile. If the user still needs this profile, ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 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