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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.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Enhance SDSF Log Read Options

Please provide an option to filter for specific messages when reading the log. ISFLOGSTARTDATE works to set a starting date with ISFLOGSTOPDATE setting the ending date for the search. Having something like ISFLOGMSG option to limit the results to ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Enhance filtering for SDSF RSYS

Provide enhanced filtering for the SDSF RSYS command. In particular, please allow use of a scope of JESPLEX
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Support ALTLIB settings for % REXX execs

The current REXX exec support only supports placement in SYSEXEC or SYSPROC. This makes writing/debugging row processing EXECs difficult, as some shops may not allow write access to libraries in the concatenation. The TSO ALTLIB command is the int...
9 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Add option to include top 3 lines in the SDSF SNAPSHOT

SDSF SNAPSHOT/SNAP command is useful when issues and IBM asks for a list of the running jobs, but every time we send a SNAP to them, they ask if we have the top 3 lines of the display (title line, command line, and Display options line). Having an...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

SDSF WLM panels should display dynamic information

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 12/04/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: Over the last few releases, SDSF has provided some great new features. One area to be ex...
over 1 year 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 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

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

Additional SDSF reason codes to the client

I was trying to access the SDSF APF panel while the system was under heavy IO stress. Retrieving the data for the panel failed with: ISF452E SDSFAUX communications failed, return code 0x00000004, reason code 0x0036080F, function "query APF". Inter...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration