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Improve ISPF 3.17 by allowing CD on the command line

ISPF 3.17 (UDList) is a useful tool but navigating can be improved by allowing the user to enter a change directory command on the command line. This would mean that the command line would need to allow mixed case text to be entered.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

z/OS - Expand DISPLAY IOS to display all possible settings from IECIOSxx

Currently, not all values can be checked/display once updated. In 2010 I opened PMR 32372,070,724 and on conclusion it was stated, "I created MR051110250 for the missing DISPLAY of MSGONLY setting.", but it's not yet implemented. Case TS013583156 ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software update - HOLD ACTIONs

Provision to save HOLD ACTIONS arising from a software update to a software instance (preferrably zone wise) to a MVS dataset.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

[zOSMF] Setting the threshold in Resource Monitor

I want to threshold monitoring using the resource monitor.In the current function, difficult to understand confirming whether or not the value is appropriate. When I did the demonstration of resource monitor for customers, we got opinions, such as...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RMF 3 Future consideration

z/OSMF Function to send a broadcast message to all users of z/OSMF

There are times when the z/OS system needs to send a broadcast message to all users to inform them of some system event that is planned. The z/OS Operator SEND command does this for TSO users, as does the TSO SEND command. The shell wall command c...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

Disallow edit/save of PDSE generated members

Provide the ability to disallow editing the non-zero PDSE member versions.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Future consideration

Request a message informing if LLA is not managing the current LNKLST set as an entity (or that that state has changed from managing to not managing) since it is managing as an entity that allows avoiding some I/O to the dataset.

This will indicate that LNKLST as a whole entity is not being managed by the Library LookAside (LLA)This is when datasets are removed and added back to the LNKLST concatenation.Current error messages for LNKLST did not indicate any problems with L...
9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Not under consideration

zERT - Show a hint when zOSMF NCA will generate multiple policy agent rules

As there is no 1:n mapping from the zERT rules to the implementable policy, zERT will generate as many rules as required and append a suffix like ~1, ~2, ~n. However when coding those rules in the zOSMF NCA GUI there is not hint that the resulting...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhance LISTDSI to support Relative GDGs

Enhance LISTDSI to support Generation Data Sets with relative GDG.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

ISPF does not record the alias name in SMF14ALIAS when accessing datasets via their alias

When browsing or editing datasets under ISPF, if the dataset is accessed through an alias, ISPF uses the real name to access it, rather than the alias. Other allocation services, such as JCL, use the alias. In z/OS 2.1, a new field in the SMF type...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

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