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Would like to see messages IGGN307I and IEA712I made highlighted and non scrollable during IPL

It would prevent issues post IPL with missing LPA libraries
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

z/OS - WTO/WTOR add a No-Manipulate Parameter

Hello IBM, It is a critical requirement for products such as GDPS, that messages are seen by the product. This involves a significant amount of expertise and time to check z/OS, NetView and SA components to ensure that certain messages are not man...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Operlog should write more than a single MDB to a logblock to allow connecting of multiple MDBS for long multi-line messages

OPERLOG currently only writes a single Message Data Block (MDB) to a logblock for the OPERLOG logstream. When attempting to display OPERLOG in hardcopy format, know applications like IEAMDBLG, SDSFLOG and ISFLOG read single logblocks containing si...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Allow suppression of messages to JOBLOG in MPFLSTxx PARMLIB members

Currently we have a number of messages which we don't want to suppress but we don't want to be visible in the JOBLOG as they can cause clutter. We stop these messages going to JOBLOG by using an MPF exit and coding the following: OI CTXTERF3,CTXTE...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Future consideration

Remove / prior to 4 digit UCB Addresses on Mount Command

The z/OS Mount command syntax requires a / prior to a 4 digit UCB. The time has come to eliminate this requirement.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Not under consideration

Increase maximum length of MVS Console commands

The MVS console does not accept commands longer than 126 characters.This can be a problem when issuing long commands (such as DUMP, SLIP, or GTF commands) from CLISTs or other automation scripts. Given that this occurrence is quite frequent, we sh...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Future consideration

Holder can't be FORCED when their is SYSIEFSD ENQ contention

When the QEDIT assembler service is invoked to free a CIB, an exclusive ENQ on SYSIEFSD Q10 is obtained to serialize the CSCB chain. While holding the ENQ, a SPOST is issued to ensure that all in progress POSTS to the address space have completed ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Future consideration

Show device status when issuing V xxxx,ONLINE

When I issue the command vary device command to bring ONE device online the command does not automatically the volume that was brought online. If I issue a vary device command to bring more than one device online, the command will automatically sh...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Future consideration

IEE707I Should show more than first 8 Bytes of the input verb

Because the message only shows the first 8 Bytes of the input verb, the message shows partial information that can be unusefull or misleading.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Future consideration

Enhance 126char console command limit

A z/OS Console Command is limited to 126 char. For me this is a similar bad limitation as the 100 char jcl parm-limit before z/OS 2.1 (which is lifted now with PARMDD etc.) I´d like to have 1024char.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Future consideration

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