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Enhance ISPF Workplace to natively accept USS paths

ISPF Workplace allows you to perform all varieties of interaction with datasets from a single place. It does not natively support USS path names, assuming instead that any path entered is for the Workstation, via the Workstation Agent. Enhance the...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

SuperC WORKSIZE option as ISPF configuration option

Like its sibling in the assembler toolkit, SuperC allows setting a WORKSIZE, which if not specified defaults to 64000. The default value of 64000 has probably been there since the program came into existence, and storage came at a premium. It woul...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Change DSMON to repot on dynamically loaded RACF exits

I'm sure this was been asked before and will probably be rejected BUT it would be nice for program ICHDSM00 to be able to report on and handle dynamically loaded RACF exits.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Ability to pull ACP tracking report using ICSF callable service. Adding report generation to ICSF ACP panel.

2 related requests as part of this RFE: 1. ACP tracking report(Across LPARs) generation/extraction using ICSF callable service, which can then be utilized by a batch job or any online (CICS/IMS) job/screen. 2. Adding report generation capability i...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 0 Future consideration

Propagate HMC certificates to defined CPCs to allow LDAP login with secure certs.

In the conversations with IBM, the following appears to be the recommended path and we are good with this approach. We need to ensure that users (including IBM techs) can log into the Support elements using trusted AD-LDAP and our Privileged User ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Planned for future release

Increase VIPADIST limit to greater than 64 ports

I'd like to ask that the current limit of 64 ports per VIPADIST IP address be increased.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

DSFS to release enqueues in a timely manner

DSFS holds excl enqueues on datasets for minutes at a time.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Bypass compression of encrypted and uncompressed datasets in DFDSS DUMP

During DUMP processing, if ZCOMPRESS is specified allow DFDSS to bypass ZEDC compression if the dataset being dumped is encrypted but NOT compressed prior to encryption
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

RMF CF OVERVIEW Data shouldn't miss when one LPAR is down.

In our z/OS V2R5 environment, we observed that RMF MONITOR 3 CF OVERVIEW record couldn't be found which is empty. The Time gap is from 02/16/22 15.17.10 to 02/16/22 16.48.00.Our JB0 system ran into issue during this time range, but we don't think ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

ISPCFIGU - allow user line command table which adds line commands to site line command table

RFE 42654 requested a System wide line command table to be implemented in ISPCFIGU which was implemented in z/OS 2.2. This enables a system programmer to provide system wide edit line commands. But when a user wants to enhance the system line comm...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration