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Add a volume parameter to Some MODIFY CATALOG Commands

Sysplex-wide commands like MODIFY CATALOG,RECOVER require a catalog name to be specified, but these commands do not support a volume parameter. This does not allow for catalogs of the same name that reside on different volumes, so the wrong catalo...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

IDCAMS PRINT to allow for codepage input

The output of an IDCAMS PRINT job includes both the raw data in printed hexadecimal and also in a "translated" section that displays capital English and special characters from the EBCDIC code page. There are many international situations where al...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

Replace CBRUXSAE OAM security exit with RACF STGADMIN profiles

The CBRUXSAE installation exit provides security authorization checking againstusers performing OSREQ transactions on object data. It is ASM code.We'd like a solution relying on RACF STGADMIN profiles.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 2 Future consideration

Software management: Serverpac, et al. Configure Deployment should allow for BOTH a target volume, and Target Storage class, and add provision to code Dataclass

At my installation, we have SMS ACS routines for directing new OMVS datasets to certain StorClass/StorGroup, mainly for the automated allocation of user home ZFS containers.. This doesnt work for SYSRES contained OMVS datasets, so I must code STOR...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Low latency zIIP eligible work running on LPARs without VH, and IIPHONORPRIORITY=YES must receive timely help from GCPs

Customers with low latency zIIP eligible work cannot rely on IIPHONORPRIORITY=YES to timely get help from standard CPs without ensuring that they have at least 1 Vertical High (VH) zIIP
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 3 Not under consideration

Request new function: z/OS ICSF a CCA Rexx/CSFIQF API to display enabled ACPs via the ISPF ICSF panels for each coprocessor.

RFE -- Request new function: z/OS ICSF a CCA Rexx/CSFIQF API to display enabled ACPs via the ISPF ICSF panels for each Crypto co-processors. Need a method via (CCA Rexx - CSFIQF API ?) that we can use on ICSF, other than displaying & copying t...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Future consideration

Allow Site and Vendor whatis files

With the growth in the use of the z/OS Unix (OMVS) environment there are more non-IBM additions to the set of available commands. The majority of these additional commands come from outside IBM. Many of these commands (one would hope all) have man...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Future consideration

Add better support to IEBCOPY for accessing non 0 PDSEv2 members.

We are using PDSEv2 more and more, specifically the feature that supports prior versions of members.However, the mechanisms to reference non-0 members is quite difficult leading us to write our own program to allocate the desired member. Thus, the...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

Support for FTP client mutual SSL authentication

Please allow the z/VM FTP client to support mutual SSL authentication
over 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Prevent recalling HSM migrated datasets when calling REST to get list of data sets on a system

REST API: List the z/OS data sets on a system recalling HSM migrated datasets and it does not support X-IBM-Migrated-Recall header to prevent this. This causes from time to time big delay and request often is timed out. In any case this behaviour ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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