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SDSF

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SDSF XDC Panel Include DD name or DSID

Currently when using XDC to print output from a job in SDSF it only displays the JOBNAME and JOBNUMBER. This is fine if you are only using it once. However, if you have multiple XDC commands going on at one time, then when you hit ENTER, it is not...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Planned for future release

Enhance SDSF limitation for IEESYSAS started tasks

Implement a customization option to permit SDSF commands DA (Active users) ou ST (Status of jobs) to show as JOBNAME the name of the creating AS (like any system AS, user AS, BPXAS or IEESYSAS) or the name of the child task when started by BPXAS o...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Provide Limit on SDSF JES2 Commands

Currently a SDSF user can submit any number of commands with SDSF in the BLOCK Command process. JES2 can hang if too many $P or $T commands are entered.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Allow filters on SDSF REXX interface when reading Operlog

Currently the ISFFILTER variable is only supported on tabular displays but not when using the REXX SDSF ISFLOG READ TYPE(OPERLOG) interface. It would be useful to be able to filter the Operlog on say SYSNAME or MSGID using the REXX interface given...
2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

z/OS 3.1 SDSF and "FS - File systems OMVS" MOUNTPARM Truncated to 57 chars.

The z/OS OMVS MOUNTPARM: parameter can be up to 1024 characters long. Suggestion: 1. If not possible for SDSF to return the complete MOUNTPARM value up to 1024 then please tell this in the: SDSF Help Text panel ( F1 Help Key) Help-Text MOUNTPARM !...
3 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

FS command in SDSF should show ZFS flags like RW,RS,NE,NC,CO ...

FS commands shos statistics about zFS file systems, however it does not show the flags that can be displayed by zfsadm fsinfo '*'
11 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

New Column in SDSF to display Max Number of Jobs in a Job Class per MAS member

On a JES2 system, the job class panel (JC) has a ‘JCLim' column. This is the value for XEQC=MAX – maximum number of jobs in this class for the entire MAS. What's missing is a column to represent the XEQMEM=MAX value – maximum number of jobs in thi...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

SDSF access to UNIX Filesystems e.g. via xdc

In SDSF it is possible to archive reports via xdc to a Dataset. It would be very handy if it would be possible to save it here directly to a UNIX File e.g. "/home/user/file".
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

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 ...
6 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

SDSF DA should be able to display log entries in spawned tasks

If I'm in an SDSF Display Active screen and I issue S against a job that is running in the Unix environment (in the example I've attached it's an FTP job that's spawned when I establish an FTP connection to the LPAR) then the response from the S i...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

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