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    Allow more than 8 coupling facilities to be defined in a CFRM policy

    Currently the maximum CFs per Coupling Facility Resource Management policy is 8. As a large shop we currently have to simultaneously maintain two policies in our production environment (one for prod and one for logical corruption detection/LCD), a...
    2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Functionality already exists

    IDCAMS PRINT translate lowercase EBCDIC characters

    The output of an IDCAMS PRINT job includes both the raw data in printed hexadecimal and also in a "translated" section that displays capital English and special characters from the EBCDIC code page. In the current environment, it would be very hel...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

    XCF_CF_STR_MAXSPACE health check update

    It would be good to update the XCF_CF_STR_MAXSPACE IBM health check so that it displays the current maximum structure space defined in the policy and the current augmented space allocation, when the check is successful. Currently you only see thes...
    3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Functionality already exists

    Add YAML support to ISPF HILITE function

    The increased use of YAML in z/OS, this would be helpful for app programmers and systems programmers.
    4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Functionality already exists

    ISPF Edit Highlighting for YAML

    YAML will be the configuration language on z/OS from V3R2 going forward. ISPF should highlight this language.
    4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Functionality already exists

    Know how close an AS is to exceeding MEMLIMIT

    MEMLIMIT is defined as the limit of private virtual storage that an address space can use above the bar any given time. But, guarded virtual storage and storage obtained with memlimit=no does not count against the MEMLIMIT. In SMF is reported SMF3...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 3 Functionality already exists

    IDCAMS PRINT to allow for codepage input

    The output of an IDCAMS PRINT job includes both the raw data in printed hexadecimal and also in a "translated" section that displays capital English and special characters from the EBCDIC code page. There are many international situations where al...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

    RMFIII WFEX in batch mode with longer time ranges from 7 to 30 days or more

    WFEX (Work Flow Exception) is a performance tool that directly facilitates determination of causes/reasons for delays in workloads. However, the interactive facility on TSO has limitations, it only captures events interactively on short time range...
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / RMF 12 Functionality already exists

    Have option to hide or secure password when using AMAPDUPL

    Hide or secure password in dataset when using AMAPDUPL thru a proxy.
    9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Functionality already exists

    Provide direct dialog manager support for creating new logical screens.

    It would make it easier to create customized environments.
    10 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 6 Functionality already exists

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