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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

omvs shell ipcs command does not include date, only time

While diagnosing a problem, the shell ipcs command was used. The output for the ipcs command displays time-information, however, it does *not* include date-information. So, there is no way to know if a 24- or 48- hour window has passed between CTI...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

zOSMF view or change tenant associations for template

Once you've completed the Add Template and Resource Pool for Tenant panels and specified which resources are associated, there is no obvious way to review or even change these definitions.For example, how can one know if the 'Allow resources to be...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

Remove reliance of the IZUFPROC as the default logon procedure to be used for RESTAPI_FILE statement in IZUPRMxx Parmlib member

Under zOS 3.1, using the zOS Change Tracker plugin for zOSMF and NOT having IZUFPROC as the logon procedure to be used for the RESTAPI_FILE statement in IZUPRMxx Parmlib member, results in an error message as follows - IKJ56712I Abnormal command.....
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 1 Delivered

Allow IWQ for appropriate bulk traffic

I am requesting that zOS CommServer and OSA development modify the existing IWQ checks to allow more traffic to be handled by IWQ. We see a lot of duplicate acknowledgements because the TCPIP stack is receiving incoming packets out of order. This ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Add stepname and step number fields to SMF Type 42.6 records

There are times when data set accesses don't result in Type 14/15 or 64/65 records. The SMF type 30 records for the associated job show CPU and I/O info at the step level, but they don't include the data set name. The 42.6 records show the jobname...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 4 Delivered

z/OSMF system variables should provide a way to retrieve just one system variable (instead of all variables)

I want to use the z/OSMF system variable API (e.g. https://s0w1.canlab.ibm.com:8136/zosmf/variables/rest/1.0/systems/ADCDPL.S0W1) but would like to be able to specify the retrieval of just one system variable, e.g. with:https://s0w1.canlab.ibm.com...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Delivered

ICSF utility support to display CKDS/PKDS user metadata

We are interested in an enhancement for the TSO ICSF utilities used to manage keys in the CKDS and PKDS. We would like the metadata display panels to include a full dump of the metadata. Currently, the panels show the formatted metadata associated...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Delivered

Convert message IEF117I to be multi-line WTO for better management

Depending upon the number of devices and/or ESOTERIC names, thousands of disconnected, single line messages without meaningful/standard "message identifiers" can be produced during a hardware activation. Defining the line types required to produce...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 0 Delivered

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