IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


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    Port the dnf package manager with RPM-based distributions for open-source software to z/OS

    dnf is a package manager that simplifies software management on RPM-based distributions. Its commands for installing, updating, searching, and removing packages, along with the ability to manage repositories, make it a valuable tool for system adm...
    4 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Submitted

    Extend the z/OSMF Parmlib Syntax Validation REST API with an additional parameter to specify the z/OS release of the selected Parmlib.

    This feature is needed to successfully check Parmlibs of older z/OS versions. Some Parmlib parameters are z/OS release specific and would fail a syntax check of another release. This property should be taken into account by the REST interface. You...
    9 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Add Functionality to access EzNOSQL JSON Documents thru TCP/IP from distributed systems (outside z/OS systems)

    EzNOSQL would be a nice and useful product, when JSON documents on z/OS would be accessable from "outside" z/OS out of the box i.e. thru a JDBC driver and /or open systems python libraries.
    4 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 0 Submitted

    Make the RECOVER BACKUP function with zOSMF Plugin for zOS Change Tracker the same as the ISPF function when the "recovery" dataset does not exist

    The RECOVER BACKUP function with zOSMF Plugin for zOS Change Tracker does not behave he same as the ISPF function when the "recovery" dataset does not exist. With the ISPF function, there is a naming standard that the RECOVERY dataset gets allocat...
    22 days ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Submitted

    Controlling who can submit jobs with specific SCHENV

    We want to control which users can submit jobs with a specific SCHENV. Currently, we control submissions using a JES2 JclEvaluation policy. However, the restriction should be much more granular and user-based.
    2 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

    Adding Functionality into RMF Monitor III and Z Performance Capacity Analytics for MQ

    Dear IBM Team We have been provided with the IBM MQ Support Pac to interpret SMF data and the MQCMD utility to use. I can confirm it is very useful in the absence if anything else, if you required to keep channel message information and data trend...
    3 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Submitted

    Add Additional Arabic Characters to z/OS Unicode 13488 to 420 Conversion

    U+0625 - إ - ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW cannot be translated to CCSID 420. There are no HAMZA BELOW code points or Ligature code points for Alef With Hamza below in the current translation table. Currently, there are normalizations in the...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode 0 Submitted

    Customize initial parameters

    z/ACS calls modules with various parameters, however for the vendors of the products we know various initial parameters which when used will cause various code paths to be taken. This would allow a greater code coverage of our own products when us...
    8 days ago in z/OS / Authorized Code Scanner 0 Submitted

    Enable MFA to work with SSH certificates

    If MFA is configured to use TOTP and a user attempts to logon to the system using an SSH certificate (Laptop -> z/OS machine) then a TOTP is not requested. When doing a similar login scenario with a Linux machine and using SSH certificates its ...
    28 days ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Submitted

    Writing & reading several records to/from a data set w/ multi-byte encoding causes TSO servlet timeout

    Using the z/OSMF ReST API, writing 810 or more records to a data set with a multi-byte encoding (such as IBM-937) causes the request to timeout after the given response timeout has elapsed. Create a physical, sequential data set NEW.DATASET with...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

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