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z/OS

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IRRADU00 support for IBM MFA SMF Type 83 subtype 7

IRRADU00 should support SMF Type 83 subtype 7 records created by IBM MFA. Currently, I seeIRR67654I The SMF record type 83 subtype 7 for product 5655MFA01 - IBM Multi-Factor Authentication for z/OS with FMID is unknownIRR67581I The failing record,...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

make it possible to adapt/customize the motd (Message of the day)

Customers require sometimes that the use of zCX adheres to customer policies & rules. They want to communicate this via motd.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF Table Services with TBHIDE and TBFLIP capability

When developing an ISPF application using tables the ability to filter the table display can significantly improve the user experience. To filter today requires that rows be deleted to remove them from the display and then added back when the filt...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Better support for PDS members in z/OS C library

The z/OS C library has poor support for PDS and PDS/E. Specifically, when using fopen() to read or write members, there are no facilities to: 1) obtain existing user directory entry info (read and write)2) update user directory info (write)3) supp...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

Release Doug Nadel-written ISPF utilities to Github as open source

During Doug Nadel’s long and storied career at IBM ISPF, he wrote many useful little utilities. He also had posted some of them on his personal website. When he retired, he removed some of them for ethical reasons, as he felt that because he had w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Externalize the ISPF 3.4 FREE option

ISPF 3.4 (DSLIT) provides a FREE dataset selection option that will release unused space. Please provide an external interface via an ISPF Service that will accomplish this so that it can be used programatically.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

zFS Striped restriction

Currently in z/OS zFS does not support the use of a striped VSAM linear data set as a zFS aggregate. StripedVSAM linear data set will only mount as read-only.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 0 Future consideration

Display more than eight Systems in ISMF panels

When displaying the volumes of a storage group MVS and SMS statuses for only eight systems are shown (e.g panelid DGTLGP36). In environments with more systems it is toilsome to get an overview especially when there is a large number of disks in th...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

Fail request to encrypt when no enctyption is done (TAPE)

When we request a dataset to be encrypted (allocation in extended format and keylabel) on DASD SMS issues messages indicating the dataset was encrypted, however, If we request a new dataset with the same characteristics that goes to VTS (tape), ev...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Not under consideration

ISPF DSLIST SRCHFOR Results Selection Enhancement

The current results of the SRCHFOR and MEM within DSLIST (ISPF 3.4) present an indication of which datasets the results were found but there is no way to then select (browse/edit/view/...) the dataset with just the results. There needs to be a way...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration