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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...
8 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 '*'
over 1 year 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 !...
9 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Enhance active and status displays with acee userid

Please add to these displays a column with the ACEE Userid - I'm not sure where owner is coming from but we have started tasks that are started by a server address space under the started task userid and then change to a specific userid which is r...
4 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 4 Functionality already exists

To have the ODTitle field as an option to the OFLDS

Our printing team manages output utilizing the ODTitle among other fields which was available with the Q command in z/OS V2.4 but removed in V.5 in favor of the JDS panel. They utilize the O panel more than the JDS panel to accomplish their workload.
3 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under 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 ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Network activity need working prefix

You can use Filters but it is not that fast/easy. I would like to use the columns names. exampel: 'Jobname STCNAME' should filter all STCNAME. 'IPAddr 127.0.01' should filter that IP
6 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

SDSF - LOG - FILTER

When invoking SDSF LOG… have SDSF check to see if a filter is defined, if one is defined… display the FILTER panel (ISFAFIL) prior to display the OPERLOG or SYSLOG. This will inform and allow the user to change the defined filters in advance, prio...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

SDSF DA should show zIIP in title line

SDSF DA (Display Active) shows in the title line the CPU usage from current LPAR, from the whole CEC and (if you have one) the zAAP usage.zAAPs are replaced by zIIPs.So please show the current zIIP usage in the title line.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Please modify SDSF RACF calls to class JESSPOOL to use the RACF group(not RACF userid) to validate if a user has access to view/modify output.

This would be useful because users in a group should be able to view /modify all output created by userids in their group. Currently, SDSF only checks the userid of the output and many RACF groups contain many(5-50) userids so it would be very ben...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Functionality already exists