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Core Infrastructure

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Extracting SMF in a single job step with a single pass of data

If I want to dump multiple different timeframes of data into an smf dataset I have to do it in multiple steps and mod'ing onto the output dataset For example if I want Type14 records from 2200 on 1st Jan to 06:00 on 3rd Jan I would have to do this...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Setting shorter timeouts (e.g. 10th of seconds) in z/OS® client web enablement toolkit

The z/OS® client web enablement toolkit provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable traditional, native z/OS programs to participate in modern web services applications. In z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit you can use t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Add scan/search capabilities to search through all backup members of a specific element

In the situation where a change tracker managed member must be restored, it’s not always clear which backup version of the member is the right one to restore. As of today, you can get a list of backups by clicking the menu button and the “Recover ...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

zERT - Show a hint when zOSMF NCA will generate multiple policy agent rules

As there is no 1:n mapping from the zERT rules to the implementable policy, zERT will generate as many rules as required and append a suffix like ~1, ~2, ~n. However when coding those rules in the zOSMF NCA GUI there is not hint that the resulting...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

JCL LIKE for PDSE Version and MAXGENS

In JCL, the DD LIKE parameter is used to specify the allocation attributes of a new data set by copying the attributes of an existing cataloged data set. One attribute it copies is the DSNTYPE parameter, which includes whether the model data set i...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 6 Future consideration

WLM performance index evaluation period should be reduced to 5 seconds or less

We have critical transactions that all of them should be ended in any case within 3 seconds. Even theses transaction have been properly defined to WLM, during high CPU utilization intervals, some of these transactions run for more than 5 seconds c...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF create your own category on left bar

At the moment it is not possible to create your own category for your personal links on the left bar of the z/OSMF panel.You can only create a new link for a given category or create it as a "no category" button.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Compiler and Library for REXX on IBM Z to Generate 64-bit Code

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 06/05/2023 Submitter Name: Lionel Dyck Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: Enhanced the REXX Compiler to generate 64-bit code - let's free up the space below the bar.
7 months ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Compiler and Library for REXX on IBM Z to Generate 64-bit Code

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 06/05/2023 Submitter Name: Lionel Dyck Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: Enhanced the REXX Compiler to generate 64-bit code - let's free up the space below the bar.
7 months ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

Command output for LI DD,KVTS

We want to work with CUIR. In the output for the Command LI DD,KVTS, should be the jobname and the system name on wich the job is running displayed. We have several TS7700T shared with 21 lpars. It's difficult to find the currently mounted job.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

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