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    Programmatically accessible output

    Currently system programmers may need to check health check reports from multiple systems. Providing the output in a format such as JSON would allow them to consolidate and dashboard on the status of multiple systems much more easily.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Planned for future release

    DFHSM FRBACKUP - Update function to return rc=04 when a Volume Definition in the Source Storage Group is has no devn assigned

    Currently when the HSM FRBACKUP command is executed, HSM will invoke the UCBLOOK macro against each volume in the source Storage Group(s). If this macro returns a rc=04 because there is no device currently assigned to the volume serial, the FRBACK...
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Planned for future release

    IDCAMS: DEFINE RECATALOG for multivolume dataset with volcount > 2 in order to the filesequence and all volumes

    Recatalog the multivolume dataset in wrong order and or less volumes the dataset is corrupted but the IDCAMS has returncode=0.
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Planned for future release

    ISPF Enhanced PANEL Edit highlighting

    The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support enhanced highlighting for the ISPF PANEL language. ISPF PANEL highlighting is very sparse, not highlighting over 170 keywords used by the PANEL language. PANEL developers on z/OS will experience signif...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Planned for future release

    ISPF HILITE PLI - keywords missing

    The IBM supplied ISP.SISPSAMP(ISRPXASM) from z/OS 2.1 (RSU1504?) lacks four PL/I keywords
    over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 7 Planned for future release

    Make zACS generate DD statements to turn off common abend analysis tools

    When we run zACS , IBM Fault Analyzer is invoked hundreds of times when analysing all SVC/PCs . It would be great if the JCL generated by zACS, included DD statements such as //IDIOFF DD DUMMY IBM FAULT ANALYZER OFF//ABNLIGNR DD DUMMY ABEND-AID OF...
    9 months ago in z/OS / Authorized Code Scanner 0 Planned for future release

    z/OS LDAP Support for AT-TLS

    z/OS LDAP should either add support for AT-TLS or provide instructions for using LDAP while AT-TLS is active.
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

    The user must have the ability to keep a dataset in zEDC compressed format during a copy or a transfer of the dataset.

    I would like to have a way to request access method to avoid decompression of a zedc compressed dataset when using it, for example via a jcl option. This would avoid unnecessary compression - decompression when dataset are accessed by product doin...
    almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Planned for future release

    (MUFG) Request to improve the problem of long processing time of rmm addvolume with TS7700

    Since rmm addvolume processing with TS7700 takes 8 times as long as Oracle VSM environment, we hope to improve it so that it can be processed in a short time.
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Planned for future release

    Missing syslog messages for important configuration changes on the HMC

    There are currently no logs for when the syslog forwarding configuration is changed, nor when changes are made to the SSL/TLS certificates used by the HMC for connections to other servers, such as remote syslog server. We need this feature to effe...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Planned for future release

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