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IEA370I - Add CONSOLE command to display active MASTCAT (e.g. F CATALOG,MASTCAT)

For auditing purposes it is important to be able to identify the active master catalog. Currently during IPL IEA370I message is issued to display the master catalog, but the message comes too early to be found in SYSLOG or captured by basic automa...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

Enable DSFS /txt support for datasets in ISPF PACK format

IBM ISPF users have been using the PACK option of ISPF Edit since it was introduced in 1983 to conserve disk space, and in some cases provide a minimal encryption of their data. With the introduction of DSFS with z/OS 2.5 and 3.1 shell users can n...
2 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

System SSL HTTP CRL request should understand all valid HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol responses

At the moment System SSL describes the following requirement:"System SSL uses the HTTP/1.1 protocol to send the HTTP CRL request and requires an HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 protocol response.The HTTP response must include a valid content-length field tha...
8 months ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Future consideration
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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

Provide an operator command to display active z/OSMF Users

Currently the systems programmer and operator can display all active jobs, tso users, and shell (sshd) users, but they are unable to display the z/OSMF users. This information is helpful when planning to shutdown a system for a planned (or unplann...
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Enhance DSFS sysout to access all data in an open sysout file

Currently with SDSF it is possible to view all of the data in an open sysout file. With /dsfs/sysout/.... that same open sysout file is empty. It obviously works when the job step, or job, completes as it is closed *but* when open and active that ...
6 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 4 Future consideration

Interface z/OS Change Tracker via z/OSMF pour un profil non administrateur

Bonjour, Serait-il possible de bénéficier des deux fonctionnalités de l'interface IPSF sous z/OSMF pour un profil non administrateur ? Fonction AUDIT Fonction RECOVER Je vous remercie par avance. Cordialement, Moussa BEN HADDOU
20 days ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Enable access to input datasets for DSFS

Currently DSFS only supports output spool datasets. The addition of input spool datasets would be very helpful in providing a full user experience via the /dsfs/ sysout interface.
11 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Show the correct SCRATCH volume count in ISMF and DFSMSrmm

Today we have a problem to show the SCRATCH volume count in the ISMF panel, because it does not matched the real available scratch volume count in the IBM VTS library manager data base. The problem is the "Delete Expired Volume Data setting". Is t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Health Checker - VSAMRLS_QUIESCE_STATUS check

Whenever there is a situation that causes VSAMRLS_QUIESCE_STATUS to alert ( by reaching the predefined threshold for the quiesce status ) this check generates a list of the CICS regions accessible only if you go inside the check - that means you h...
12 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 2 Future consideration

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