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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

In SDSF ULOG, the commands history list should be enhanced to display the result based on the using frequency

It will become smarted based on the user behavior.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Save/Retrieve multiple FILTER/SORT definitions by name

Changing the FILTER / SORT definitions removes the old values, but it's not possible to retrieve previously set values.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 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...
8 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Functionality already exists

Provide ability to browse JES2 control blocks related to a specific job

As part of our product development, today we found a need to browse JES2 control blocks for a specific job. For implementation, it should be able to read blocks from storage or from the spool. It would also be beneficial for customers who write th...
12 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under 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

Support additional special variables like ISFTLINE in secondary panels like JDS when using REXX as %-action character

Some special variables like ISFTLINE are not supported on (some?) secondary panels (like JDS) when using REXX as %-action-character. Eg. ISFTLINE could be used to get JOBNAME or JOBID in secondary panel like JDS. Alternatively, having the JOBNAME,...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Planned for future release

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

Better Messages and Help for LOGLIM in OPERLOG

If you enter 'F xx PREV' in OPERLOG and get the Message 'TOP OF DATA REACHED' this could mean that you reach top of data or the LOGLIM – there is no way to differentiate what is true. It would be much easier for the user if ‘LOGLIM REACHED' is dis...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

SDSF : improving WLM-managed INITS control

running JES2 WLM-managed INITS the way to 'open/close inits' is managing QAFF jobclass parm, and the way to assign a fixed number of inits for a JobClass is managing the XEQMEMBER parm. In order to do an easy and quick control of the JES2 WLM-mana...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

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