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Enhance the HZS0201I message to include the "active" Check parameters

The current output (the HZS0201I message) from the DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAIL command displays the "DEFAULT PARAMETERS" and the "USER SUPPLIED PARAMETERS", but it does not display the list of parameters that are actually being used by the Check. One mi...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Not under consideration

ISPF SuperC compare / ISREDIT COMPARE support for modify process options in REXX/TSO.

Customer: Claus Bjoerno, Bankdata under JN Data.---------------------------- We're currently having an issue with the internal ISPF SuperC compare, using this statement in a REXX under TSO: "ISREDIT COMPARE SESSION SAVE SYSIN" It seems that this c...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

Integration of CHPID-Mapping-Tool-Logic into HCD

Today: IBM Z hardware configuration process is extremely clumsy, complex, error prone and time intensive. In addition the user needs to work with several non-integrated tools. This causes unnecessary effort in regular configuration tasks and adds ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / HCD 5 Future consideration

Possibility to choose the systems to make the XCF Rebuild Copy Process

We think it is important to have the option to choose the systems that will do the system managed rebuild of CF structures by defining a preference list, for example.We had a case where we verified that the system that was doing the copy was a GDP...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

BLDL to PDSE need to return RC=08 at I/O error instead of ABEND212

PDSE data sets are used in IMS Online environment and issue BLDL, FINE, READ, CHECK macros.DCB specify SYNAD exit and ABEND Exit. But BLDL to PDSE issues ABEND212 with DFS909I 212-00 instead of RC=08 at I/O error. When we used standard PDS, it ret...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 4 Planned for future release

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path.

I've opened an incident on the subject we'd like to be able to put a continuation character in the OBJAME when providing the Instream path. Ticket : TS016454799
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Planned for future release

SDSF RACF health check improvements

As per TS014534230, I'd like an improvement to SDSF / Health check SDSF_CLASS_SDSF_ACTIVE to eliminate checking of obsolete profiles and also to check whether JES2 or JES3 is being used and then only check for the relevant profiles. Currently the ...
11 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

zfsadm shrink should provide a means to automatically specify -size without running aggrinfo or calculating from fsinfo

zfsadm shrink requires too much manual intervention to be useful. -size must be taken either from aggrinfo, or calculated from fsinfo, then manually added to the zfsadm shrink command. zfsadm shrink should provide a means to do this automatically ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 2 Future consideration

zfsadm shrink should provide means to mount R/O filesystem R/W, then switch back to R/O after zfsadm shrink completes

zfsadm shrink requires too much manual intervention to be useful. Forcing a user to manually remount the filesystem R/W, then remount it again as R/O is time-consuming and error prone. zfsadm shrink should provide a means to do this automatically....
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

Check pending structures and perform structures' rebuild more easily when activating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When activating a new CFRM policy, sometimes the change remains pending if CF resources are allocated for the structures being modified. Reallocate or structure rebuild is needed in order for the pending policy change to take effect. However, with...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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