I don't speak for SIGMPE, but at the meeting today the status of the following
enhancements was discussed:

Top 10:

Persistent :ALLOW               Design
Kill a PIN                      Investigation
:COPY filesets                  Investigation
:SHOWOUT % complete             Not currently planned
System-wide :SETVAR             Coding
Disk mirroring sys vol set      Investigated/not currently planned
:STARTSESS on IP addr           Not currently planned
:ALTJOB ;HIPRI                  In 6.0
:DISALLOW to disable cmds       Not currently planned
:SPOOLF to adjust remaining copies      Not currently planned

Note: "Not currently planned" is not the same as "No way; never".

Enhancements done:

:LISTF ,ACCESS                  5.5 exp3
Multiple job queues             6.0
:ALTJOB ;HIPRI                  6.0
date intrinsics                 5.5 exp4; Jazz now
:CONSOLE over LAN               5.0 exp3

Other in-progress:

File system >4GB files          Design
STREAM intrinsic                Design

I should mention that I already have a solution that provides :SHOWOUT % done
information:

        ftp://ftp.cccd.edu/pub/mpe/spin.mover.Z
        http://www.cccd.edu/ftp/pub/mpe/spin.mover.Z

Follow the Apache/iX instructions on how to do the MOVER/UNCOMPRESS stuff:

        http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/apacheix.html

The DNS server issue came in at #14 on the System Improvement Ballot, too low
to be considered by HP, but of course I've already ported the BIND 8.1.1 DNS
server which you can find at:

        http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/bindix.html
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