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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

HMC Data Replication and IDAA Call-Home

By design 'HMC Data Replication' does not synchronize definitions for IDAA Call-Home to other HMC's.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Prepare a single-phase power feature code for the IBM Z power supply

Japanese data center facilities are mainly single-phase. When IBM Z is selected, we would like you to prepare a single-phase power supply mechanism that can be installed in the existing equipment environment.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

Improve BCPII availability during SE switch

During a concurrent SE switch BCPII is unavailable drint at least 10 minutes.I ask you to reduce this time less than 1 mn
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 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

Passphrase support for master console logins

Using MFA on z/OS, and need passphrase support for logging on to the master console. Most other login entry points are passphrase enabled
about 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 4 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

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