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    Provide keyword support to suppress generation of TITLES and LEGEND when running ISMF in batch

    When running batch ISMF/NAVIQUEST using ACBJBAOB, would like to have keyword support to be able to suppress the generation of TITLES and/or LEGEND in the output (especially when sending the report to a file) which is then subsequently used as inpu...
    1 day ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 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 ...
    6 days ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 0 Submitted

    Allow otel.resource.attributes and otel.exporter.otlp.headers labels to be configurable

    At UBS, it is mandatory to include billing information and software owner identification when sending data to our OTEL Landing Zone. This is achieved by setting the otel.resource.attributes and otel.exporter.otlp.headers fields. Without these attr...
    14 days ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 0 Submitted

    Expand options for automount

    the -f option on automount should allow wildcarding and also accept a 'blank' to show ALL zfs's automount information.
    5 days ago in z/OS / USS 0 Submitted

    IDC0038I COMPRESSION INTERFACE USED, DATA TRANSFER COMPLETE. No Number of Records were shown

    IDCAMS SYSTEM SERVICES generate the IDC0005I Message in Joblog when the Dataclas of the Output Dataset have no COMPACTION(ZP) - with Dataclas on COMPACTION(ZP) the Message IDC0038I will appear in the Joblog - without the Number of Records processe...
    12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Submitted

    V SMS,PDSE,ANALYSIS should not require UPDATE on MVS.VARY.SMS

    RACF profile MVS.VARY.SMS protects the use of the VARY SMS command. With the V SMS command, you can change config/settings that influence the system. Therefor the required UPDATE access can only be granted to limited users. (high privileged users ...
    12 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Submitted

    Allow multiple z/OSMF server tasks to share a common data repository within a SYSPLEX

    We would like to be able to run multiple z/OSMF servers tasks in a SYSPLEX that can be used to manage Software install, Zert, PAGENT policies (or anything else that has persistent data) in addition to REST APIs. Currently the persistent data canno...
    2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Allow differentiated SWT/TWT/JWT timeouts in SMFPRMxx by user or RACF group

    Currently, SWT/TWT/JWT parameters in SMFPRMxx apply globally to all accounts. This limits flexibility in environments where privileged users should have shorter idle timeouts than regular users to reduce the risk of misuse. Proposal: Enhance SMFPR...
    8 days ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 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...
    16 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

    Add support for zstd

    A port of zstd is available at https://github.com/zopencommunity/zstdport CDA currently supports zlib and gzip, both CPU hardware accelerated.Don't believe the zstd port does this, but still would be useful to have this option; or at least see a T...
    20 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Submitted

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