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Simple Ordering of rules in zOSMF Configuration Assistant

When managing the order of rules by selecting the radio button and chose 'Move up' the focus on the selected rule gets lost and I have to select it again which is very cumbersome. The focus must remain on the selected rule to move it up few levels...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

CFRM Policy Editor Should Ask for Confirmation Before Overwriting or Renaming an Existing CFRM Policy

The CFRM Policy Editor currently will overwrite or rename an existing policy without asking the user to confirm that that is their intention. It would be better if the Policy Editor could check to see if there is already a policy with the same nam...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

Add GDG Extended Support to ISPF 3.2

Add the ability to specify GDG Extended keyword and define more than 255 GDG LIMIT when using ISPF 3.2 - Option V for Data Type Generation Data Group
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Delivered

rm -r protection when spanning multiple file systems

A user accidentally issued an rm -r .* * command from /The user was unaware that he did this. This deleted files across thousands of our USS file systems. There needs to be a warning message when this kind of destructive command is issued that spa...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Delivered

z/OSMF Software Install ServerPac like merge capability

Provide the ability in z/OSMF Software Install to merge like datasets (especially ISPF type datasets but also ZFS file systems and potentially others).
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Delivered

ISPF: Return ZLPDSUDA on LMMFIND

This is a straight-up Request for Enhancement Headline: Set ZLPDSUDA in ISPF LMMFIND & LMMLIST services Description: The ISPF LMMDISP, LMMFIND, and LMMLIST services each optionally return a member statistics, setting around 28 different dialog...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Delivered

Enhance 'date' command to support Julian date conversion

Very often there is a need to convert a Julian date to regular-date and back. In other Unix/Linux version this can be done e.g. by commands like:date -d "2007-11-30" +%j. One can write a REXX scripts performing this conversion ,,, but much better ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Delivered

zosmf session_timeout for inactive sessions

As a security compliance we have a requirement to time out users/processes that have been inactive for a specific period of time.The SESSION_EXPIRE does not support INACTIVE session timeout handling without causing nuisance to active users.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Delivered

z/OSMF step approvers - support groups

Hi, When defining a workflow template, steps can contain an Approvers Table. Currently, only userids can be specified. This request is to add support for groups of users. As you know, users are transient: they come and go, causing maintenance impa...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

z/OS SDSF CONFIRM(ALWAYS) with ABORT choice by default

Hello, To prevent some misuse in SDSF about JOB purge with the action character "P" in front of a job, we try to customize the confirmation popup to avoid a too quick purge. To do that, in ISFPRM00, we added the CONFIRM(ALWAYS) parameter which is ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered