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Extend isfjcall to call SDSF functions with parameters

Several SDSF functions allow the user to specify parameters on invocation, for example "CK E", "RM ALL", "DEV ACT". To the contrary, isfjcall runners always return all rows, often don't honor the function's default parameter (like for RM it is "RM...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

z/OS SDSF CONFIRM(ALWAYS) with ABORT choice by default

Hello, To prevent some misuse in SDSF about JOB purge with the action character "P" in front of a job, we try to customize the confirmation popup to avoid a too quick purge. To do that, in ISFPRM00, we added the CONFIRM(ALWAYS) parameter which is ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

SDSFAUX Service Class

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 03/19/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: The current documentation ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=customization-us...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

Add member information to Jobclass panel on SDSF

JC panel on SDSF is lacking the member information (available with D action char). The 82 SSI provide this data at the member level: Active? PXEQ? max, current, ... New columns or JC MEMBERS should show the detailed data in a tabular form.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Delivered

Don't truncate column EXCP-CNT in DA Panel, instead show **

Please change the behavior in the DA (Display Active) Panel to show ** instead of truncating the numbers in the case the column-width is not big enough.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Delivered

Filtering SDSF messages wrt to a task

I would like to a command that would help to filter any messages that are written by a task. Instead doing an FIND command that would look for the string .. I'm looking for a filter command that would pull all the lines wrt to a task.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Delivered