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Provide customer with the option refreshing the msg10 screen when the 'clear' key is hit

Before applying the fix for PQ59246, using a USSMSG10 screen during a TN3270 session logon, when the 'clear' key is hit, the msg10 screen is always refreshed. After PQ59246, it was changed to leave the screen completely clear of any data. Actually...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

ISPF SRCHFOR function fails to notify the user when additition hidden options are in place

When using SRCHFOR on the ISPF Command line in option 3.4, it will sometimes not find the string even though it does exist in the list. This can occur when there are other options specified that are not seen by the user unless they enter SRCHFOR (...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Warning about problems during code page conversion while uploading and downloading text data

Product: Zowe CLI, VS Code Extension for Zowe Actor: User editing data from z/OS datasets, members, or UNIX files on a workstation and using a different encoding than IBM-1047 on the mainframe (e.g. IBM-870, IBM-037, IBM-273...) in the text mode P...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Request to create a new RLS command to show the name of the data sets that are allocated inside a data cache structure.

The Itau bank opened the PMR: 28951,228,631 because we didn't find a way to know the VSAM RLS data sets that were allocated inside a data cache structure. During the pmr the only way to find the name of those data sets was to check this informatio...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to list all z/OSMF Workflow Definitions

z/OSMF Workflow Definitions must be specified when creating a Workflow instance. However the user must know the name and location of the file that contains the Workflow Definition. It would be FAR easier to use Workflows if the Workflow Editor 'ca...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

New Security Type for HTTP and OCSP in System SSL

With enabled Certificate revocation status checking in ATTLS, system SLL offers 3 different security types for HTTP and OSCP (RevocationSecurityLevel = Low, Medium or High) LowCertificate validation does not fail if the OCSP responder or HTTP serv...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / SSL 0 Future consideration

Enhance RACF so a Passticket Only UserID is possible

Please enhance RACF so that we have a new attribute of let's call it PASSTICKET or PASSTICKETONLY We use passtickets and for security reasons don't want the UserIDs to also have to have a password.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

SDSF RACF health check improvements

As per TS014534230, I'd like an improvement to SDSF / Health check SDSF_CLASS_SDSF_ACTIVE to eliminate checking of obsolete profiles and also to check whether JES2 or JES3 is being used and then only check for the relevant profiles. Currently the ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

SSH Enhancements on z/OS

We would like to request SSH enhancements in the area of Authentication and User Mapping, as well as Compatibility features for non-z/OS platforms connecting to z/OS (x509 Certificate Support).
over 6 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 1 Not under consideration

HealthCheck for RACF Class PROGRAM

In RACF-Class PROGRAM there are PROFILEs with MEMBER-Definitions,for example Profile ** with Members (for example) DB2.OLD.VERSION.SDSNLOAD.I would likte to get an automatic health-check of this RACF-Class. Maybe an Extention to IBMRACF,RACF_SENSI...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration