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Support for YYYY/MM/DD format in REXX DATE() function

Can a new option be added to the REXX DATE() function that returns a date in YYYY/MM/DD format, as required by LMMSTATS CREATED4 format? Maybe DATE('S/')?
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Future consideration

BLDL to PDSE need to return RC=08 at I/O error instead of ABEND212

PDSE data sets are used in IMS Online environment and issue BLDL, FINE, READ, CHECK macros.DCB specify SYNAD exit and ABEND Exit. But BLDL to PDSE issues ABEND212 with DFS909I 212-00 instead of RC=08 at I/O error. When we used standard PDS, it ret...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 4 Planned for future release

Managing multiple CPM instances across multiple CECs & plexes

Allow CPM instances to communicate with each other to ensure only one instance per CEC is in Autonomic mode to remove the possibility of multiple instances from trying to activate capacity on the same CEC. Also, if the LPAR that is running the CPM...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

Additional Authority needed on RACF Classes

Class Authority allows a userid to create profiles in a RACF class owned by themselves or another but they can only see profiles they either have at least READ access to or own. Only a user with SPECIAL can see all profiles in a class, there needs...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

JES2 policy editor

JES2 policy is a new feature in z/OS 2.4 that allows system programmer to create JES2 job preprocessing and post processing other than using exits. However, JES2 policy is in form of JSON. It would be more user friendly to design the JES2 policy w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Optionnaly hide LPAR performance data despite HiperDispatch

Despite that HiperDispatch requests that the LPAR option named 'performance data control' be activated, we would like to have the possibility to manage the accesses to these performance data based on the same security rules as they exist in the BC...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

ISPF Edit custom hilities

Allow ISPF EDIT users to create a customize scheme for highlighting lines and text within EDIT. This would include: - Comments (entire line or in-line) - Keywords (allow for up to 4 different colors) - Punctuations (comma, semi-colon, etc) - Block...
12 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

UNIT=AFF as default for all concatenated allocations

Because there is no way to limit the number of tape drives a batch job can request concurrently, it would be very helpful if UNIT=AFF were the default for ALL concatenated allocations.Today, when tape storage is tapeless, it makes no sense to moun...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 4 Not under consideration

Display tagging information for files on z/OS UNIX Directory List ISPF applications.

ISPF applications File Manager HFS Browse/Edit and Udlist (3.17) should display the tagging information like a ls -lT shell command. Example: t IBM-1047 T=on t ISO8859-1 T=on I'm using enhanced ASCII support and needing to tag text files and find ...
8 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Setting the FCTOPPRCPRIMARY option default

In a DFSMSdss copy process, using the default for FASTREPLICATION(PREF), copy is processed not using FC. Message : IGD17279I 1 VOLUMES WERE REJECTED BECAUSE OFPPRC PRIM CURRENTLY ACTIVEANTRQST QFRVOLS VOLUME RSN(2) The only way to resolve this is ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

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