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ISPF Edit Highlighting for awk

awk is a powerful scripting language for text manipulation in the USS arena. ISPF should support this language. All ISPF users would benefit from this enhancement.
4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Functionality already exists

Confirmation Screen Before Performing An SE Switch

Would it be possible to have a confirmation screen before an SE Switch is performed? Currently you just select the option and then click ok and it goes off and performs the SE Switch. After clicking ok, could there be a confirmation screen present...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Functionality already exists

ISPF Edit Highlighting for HTML in ASCII mode

ISPF highlighting should support highlighting HTML in ASCII mode. With the growth of HTML files in USS that appear in ASCII mode, ISPF support of these files makes sense. HTML coders will benefit, as well as the entire ISPF ecosystem.
5 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Functionality already exists

ISPF Edit Highlighting for Natural

ISPF Highlighting should support Natural code. This will improve productivity for Natural coders and will generally benefit the entire ISPF ecosystem.
5 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Functionality already exists

sdsf parmlib option give member name

We have the sdsf.parm command today. which lists the datasets in parmlib concatenation.It would be good to be able to issue sdsf.parm IGDSMS00 and it displays __ user.parmlib(IGDSMS00) __ sys1,parmlib(IGDSMS00) so I can then browse/edit it directl...
5 months ago in z/OS / SDSF Functionality already exists

API messages for Capacity on Demand start

My customer would like to be able to better automate making sure that they don't exceed their CoD contract. Right now the check is based on when the model number of the CoD'd system changes but it would be useful if an API message/webhook could be...
6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Functionality already exists

zOS Health Check - Root and Altroot in synch?

Add a new Health Check or extend an existing one that compares the root and altroot filesystem if they are in synch.
6 months ago in z/OS / USS Functionality already exists

Allow more than 8 coupling facilities to be defined in a CFRM policy

Currently the maximum CFs per Coupling Facility Resource Management policy is 8. As a large shop we currently have to simultaneously maintain two policies in our production environment (one for prod and one for logical corruption detection/LCD), a...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES Functionality already exists

Simplify FTP with z/OS Data Sets

To transfer a data set from one z/OS system to another via FTP, the target system needs to have compatible attributes set or else you encounter errors such as EZA2590E send error from send_data - EDC5140I Broken pipe. (errno2=0x76697242) EZA2603E ...
7 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Functionality already exists

Adding a capability to Reflect RSU Level or Maintenance(APAR Level)

Hello Team, Greetings ! As z/OS SysProgs it is often difficult to keep track of maintenance level at which z/OS LPARs are. I was going over IBM Z community discussion and observed one locally developed solution to address this issue. It was done b...
7 months ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure Functionality already exists

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