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additional JESLOG SPIN options

provide several additional options to the JESLOG=SPIN parameter:- ability to spin once a week- adhoc by command- ability to keep the first bit of output
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

ISPF Extended Statistics Enhanced Display

Currently ISPF supports extended statistics but fails to display them.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

The mail-handling stop in JES2EDS until the failing mail has manually been removed from Queue.

If someone make an error in the Notify-parameter the mail-handling stop i JES2EDS until the failing mail has manually been removed using the $PS($EDSQ0xx),ONERROR-JES2-command.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

LE storage report STACK64 option new feature

The Maximum used by all concurrent threads is to count active thread number which is counted after thread initialization before thread termination and could handle the workload. We need one thread number statistics value align with the stack lifet...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Z/OSMF ISPF needs to use ACCOUNT NUMBERS with comma's.

z/OSMF ISPF does not allow account numbers with comma's. Since z/OSMF ISPF does not allow full screen logon and uses line mode type of logon. The account number gets truncated to the first comma. example of a full screen account number that 3270 u...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Future consideration

Allow ML2 parameter for the MIGRATE SG and MIGRATE VOLUME parameters.

Customers may encounter a situation where their HSM ML1 volumes have filled and yet they still need more space in the storage groups for production data. Customers can use the MIGRATE SG command or the MIGRATE VOLUME command. However, the ML2 subp...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

VSAM Verify to repair control blocks

If VSAM open feedback indicates improperly closed VSAM, we would like to have VSAM open to implicitly drive VSAM Verify one time and re-drive the open request. This is to be done in a fashion that application requesting OPEN is successful in the c...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 3 Not under consideration

Logon-ability with a Business Role

Definition of a Member-Class, the profiles are the name of the Business-Role, the members are group-names that represent different access-rights.Example:Profile: RACF-SystemadministratorMember:#TSOBASE Group for TSO-Basic-Rights#SDSF001 Group for ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 5 Not under consideration

Provide Unique ABENDs for B37-04

<p>Copied from old SHARE Requirements system <span>SSSHARE012857</span>: Voting Priority=2.9</p><br /><p>+5=2 +4=10 +3=3 +2=5 +1=3 abstain=1 -2=1 Priority=2.9</p><br /><p>Allocation failures (B...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Future consideration

Include IRRPRMXX parms in RVARY LIST output

Request to update the RVARY LIST command's output to include all possible parameters which could be specified in the PARMLIB(IRRPRMxx) RACF data set name table member. Currently, parms such as BUFFERS, UPDATEBACKUP are not in the output; thus user...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

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