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ISPF SuperC compare / ISREDIT COMPARE support for modify process options in REXX/TSO.

Customer: Claus Bjoerno, Bankdata under JN Data.---------------------------- We're currently having an issue with the internal ISPF SuperC compare, using this statement in a REXX under TSO: "ISREDIT COMPARE SESSION SAVE SYSIN" It seems that this c...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

Requirement to support HTTP header-based authentication with Z/OSMF

We are trying to access z/OSMF over an Apache HTTPD proxy, unfortunately the proxy does not allow us to forward the client authentication certificate. The authentication is done on the proxy and then the proxy forwards the HTTP header-based authen...
12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ISMF Last Date/Time Modified field updated incorrectly

Although SMS SCDS does not contain any Scratch Threshold values, the Last Date/Time Modified field is updated when changing a Scratch Threshold value. My customer claims that the Last Date/Time Modified field shouldn't be updated if the SMS SCDS i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

Enhance LISTDSI to display number of generations for PDSE V2 with member generations

LISTDSI should be enhanced to display the number of member generations for a PDSE V2 file with member generation support.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 4 Future consideration

Check pending structures and perform structures' rebuild more easily when activating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When activating a new CFRM policy, sometimes the change remains pending if CF resources are allocated for the structures being modified. Reallocate or structure rebuild is needed in order for the pending policy change to take effect. However, with...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

DFSMSsms ACS provide &OLDNAME variable during ACSENVIR=RENAME in MGMTCLAS

During SMS &ACSENVIR='RENAME' processing there is currently no ability in the MGMTCLAS routine to check what the original dataset name is, you only have the newname in the &DSN variable. This means that inappropriate renames cannot be prev...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Not under consideration

Improve the copy services tasks management of ANTMAIN to avoid some tasks interfere with other tasks

During the implementation of TCT (transparent cloud tiering) with HSM and DS8K my customer caused an incident that stopped all jobs using ADRDSSU to complete and to be cancelled. The current maxtask value (42) of ANTMAIN was reached because the mi...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

Add GEN as an option to LMMDISP

Add the GEN option which EDIT service has, to LMMDISP service too.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Provide common APIs in support of PDSE Member Generations

We know member generations are useful but to access them requires a lot of work, especially from the open environment. By providing a set of common APIs current, i.e. REXX, and new, i.e.Perl, python, etc. will be able to easily work with member ge...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Not under consideration

Create Health Check for Hardware Messages

We would like to have a health check for hardware messages on HMC. For example, when an RSF service call fails for some reason, it will be reported on HMC but we would like to see an exception on health check panel to. In our installation the HMCs...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

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