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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

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

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

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

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

Allow 'su' to inherit options from the parent shell

Hello IBM, Without the 2nd 'errexit', the script below continues further execution, despite /var/xxxxxxxxxxx being non-existent ('su' does not inherit the 1st 'errexit'). If the commands following the 'su' are dangerous, system-wide actions (not h...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

REXX Syntax should be available in JCL

JCL isn't going away - it's too deeply embedded, there are too many "dusty decks" that aren't feasible to convert, and too many tools that work with or assume it. So, while having Python and REXX for scripting is nice, they can't supersede JCL. Bu...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

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

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