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Remove LNOTES segment from RACF

The LNOTES is virtually unused and irrelevant in the modern business. If we removed it would be easier to create products and APIs around RACF, it would also be less information new-to-z people would have to deal with.
6 days ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Submitted

Enter, update, delete and validate cloud credentials from z/OSMF

The user to enter and verify their cloud credentials (same as in the ISPF panel)
2 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Submitted

Support JobPgmList in JES2 SYSOUTGroup policies

We recently had a case where we had a specific, hard-to-change program, dynamically creating a sysout dataset that we wanted to get rid of. A JES2 policy was the easiest way. However, since JobPgmList is not available to SYSOUTGroup policies, we h...
about 14 hours ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

Full AMAPDUPL support, when using "send diagnostic data" in incident log

Incident log send diagnostic data facility collects all the data needed to send to ibm cases in an easy way. Full AMAPDUPL support would help to send this data easy. ATTLS should be full supported
7 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Misleading e-tag mismatch after uploading to sequential data set

Create a sequential data set with RECFM=VB. In this case I created a data set with my username (4 characters long) as the high-level qualifier: USER.TEST.PS Use the z/OSMF API endpoint to write to a data set (PUT request, /zosmf/restfiles/ds/<d...
3 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

SSHD Support for zVM OS

SSHD support directly in VM would allow for modern tooling to connect and utilise the platform. Version control of config files via GIT for example.
7 days ago in z/VM 1 Submitted

Add sudo command into the base install USS security

Integrating sudo like Linux has would improve security by being able to use superuser privileges on a case-by-case basis rather than having all of your commands be superuser authorized. We'd also be able to set restrictions and timeouts in the sud...
4 months ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 8 Planned for future release

IZUFPROC Abend S222 and S013E Logrec Entries

S222 abends are generally expected when the RESTFiles requests have finished their processing. When a request first arrives, REST Files creates a TSO Address Space to handle the request, which remains available after use so that subsequent request...
15 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Better control of STACK and HEAP allocation in CICS.

We want better control of the AUTODST parameter behaviour in CICS. We want to be able to control the maximum initial and incremental sizes. We also want to be able to control the percentage of the expected total sizes that goes to initial and incr...
8 days ago in z/OS / LE 1 Submitted

Automatic Binary Optimizer for the Operating System

Since years, there is the ABO available for COBOL. The latest z/OS always supports up to minus two generations of hardware. So after you update a z/OS and a machine, you still can't benefit at all from the latest hardware. The idea is to add a sim...
28 days ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

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