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SDSF

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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...
over 6 years 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...
almost 2 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...
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".
over 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...
almost 7 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.
almost 7 years 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...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under 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.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future 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...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

Extend PRINT function line range to incl

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00068438User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSJES295205Title: Extend PRINT function line range to include location markersSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / (919)572-2963FP...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration