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The Admin should not be allowed to view the usersession without the user being informed or asked

When the Administrator starts Monitoring a user he has the Option whether or not to ask the users permission . The user would always be asked and the Administartor would not have the Option to Monitor without the users permission.
about 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

IBM JDK Kerberos compatibility

"Based on the JGSS documentation, IBM does not support the "storeKey" property as a JAAS option: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYKE2_7.0.0/com.ibm.java.security.api.doc/jgss/com/ibm/security/auth/module/Krb5LoginModule.html We ar...
about 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Implement preserve-root option on zfile rm

zTPF should request "positive confirmation/are you sure" on certain potentially harmful ZFILE commands.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Option to save AOCTRACE globals, so can trace from NetView startup.

Tracing can easily be turned on using either command line or AOCTRACE panels, however, traces are not maintained over NetView restart. Please can an option be provided in AOCTRACE to allow saving of the aoctrace globals so tracing is restarted as ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Enable concurrent use of replication and vaulting in CTC

CTC support replication as a mechanism by which the local tape pool is replicated to a remote location for high availability. CTC also support eVaulting which moves a local tape to a remote location for business recovery. Once a tape has been repl...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

SuperC Option to Report Entire Record and Highlight Differences

A SuperC comparison will by default report ~90 bytes of the record containing a difference, or ~190 bytes using an existing option. We would like an option that allows the entire record to be shown within the existing report width, wrapped to as m...
over 5 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Future consideration

COBOL to JSON conversion schema assistant(DFHJS2LS) to allow specification of which COBOL internal datatype is to be mapped rather than defaulting to Comp-2

Issue description: simple test that makes very visible that an issue exists in the serialization from COBOL to JSON: a. We have a JSON “double” in the input named “test_comp_2” valued with 2.003, for example. b. We have a JSON “double” in the...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Add an isNumeric() test to record classes

There currently is no straightformat way for generated record classes to check whether a byte pattern contains valid numeric data (in the sense of the COBOL "IS NUMERIC" test). However, this is often needed: Since COBOL does not really have the no...
over 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Allow to specify a sender email address for zAware

Development confirmed that zAware email feature automatically replaces the sender email address with NO-REPLY. This is a problem for most mail servers as they reject emails without a properly qualified sender email address. Please allow the user t...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Future consideration

Need to have typical z/OS System Programmer commands available in E3270UI

Mostly all the commands related to a z/OS System Programmer should be available directly in E3270UI. To achieve this goal it would be sufficient to have a system console directly in E3270UI with different authorities capabilities (for example for ...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration