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Full ISPF Support for PDSE V2 Generations

ISPF needs to fully support PDSE V2 generations. Currently ISPF Edit supports creating a new generation when a member is saved but none of the other ISPF services recognize a generation. Access to prior generations is not intuitive and thus effect...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 9 Future consideration

Signed SMF Records - Improvement of the Validation Process with IFASMFDL

Currently one has to follow the below steps to activate and validate signed SMF records (According: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=records-setting-up-using-digitally-signed-smf).The basic steps to set up and use digitally signed SMF r...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

DFSMShsm Update delete empty container messages to reflect the function it is for, migration or dump.

TCT cloud users currently see messages regarding the deletion of empty containers for migration and for dump. These messages are issued when the corresponding function is running. It would be helpful if the messages contained the function keyword ...
20 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

New command to inverse a file

We would like to have a DFSORT utility to easily invert a file, so the records to become columns and the opposite (like matrix inversion). Input example: ABC123 output: A1 B2 C3 Kind regards Konstantinos
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Future consideration

LISTCAT dates should provide dates in ISO8601 format YYYY-MM-DD

LISTCAT output dates (creation, expiration or lbackup) of an entry are only displayed in Julian format. It should be very useful an additional ISO8601 format as well. Kind regards Konstantinos
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Under review

Enhance zsh so the delete key works as on other platforms

Currently the zsh shell works well on 3.1 but the delete key on z/OS does not work the same as on Linux. On z/OS 3.1 zsh the delete key generates a ~ character and inserts it. The zsh shell should be consistent.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Control passphrase strength and complexity, just like password strength and complexity is today.

We must enforce complexity rules for passphrase (i.e. : minimal length, pattern, ...etc...), just like we do for password. Some regulatory bodies compel us to do so in Banking industry. The subparameter RULEn of SETROPTS PASSWORD command should ap...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Under review

zOSMF - Full High Availability (not only for REST)

Current implementation of zOSMF does not allow for a full High-Availability setup, which contradicts the platforms design with highest availability, redundancy and data sharing.We suffer from zOSMF downtime required for maintenance of the hosting ...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server (NCA) - Add Backup option

NCA should have a option of backing up existing policy dataset/file before appending saving new changes. This allow easy rollback if required.
21 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Enhance RACF ENF 79 signalling for grouping class profiles relating to DB2 objects

We found that if someone has successfully executed e.g. a Stored Procedure with access granted via a RACF grouping profile and then you remove their access to that grouping profile alongside relevant RACLIST REFRESH command, they can still execute...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Under review

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