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Add Batch job name to report besides the default Userid

The current process for reporting on changes to PDS/PDSE members for any add, deletes, updates, changes will list only the userid. The client currently uses PDSMAN, and STOW option, and this report also list changes made by batch jobs. The batch j...
5 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Tolerate %NOCOMMENT and %COMMENT in initial /* rexx */ comment of a USS Rexx script

Under TSO/E, one may specify %NOCOMMENT in the first line /* rexx */ identifier as a signal to the TSO/E Rexx processor and to VLF to compress the in-storage source by removing all comment text, leaving just /**/. This saves storage during executi...
10 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Extracting SMF in a single job step with a single pass of data

If I want to dump multiple different timeframes of data into an smf dataset I have to do it in multiple steps and mod'ing onto the output dataset For example if I want Type14 records from 2200 on 1st Jan to 06:00 on 3rd Jan I would have to do this...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Setting shorter timeouts (e.g. 10th of seconds) in z/OS® client web enablement toolkit

The z/OS® client web enablement toolkit provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable traditional, native z/OS programs to participate in modern web services applications. In z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit you can use t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

JCL LIKE for PDSE Version and MAXGENS

In JCL, the DD LIKE parameter is used to specify the allocation attributes of a new data set by copying the attributes of an existing cataloged data set. One attribute it copies is the DSNTYPE parameter, which includes whether the model data set i...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 6 Future consideration

CSSMTP Add Return-/Reason-Code to Message EZD1813I

When CSSMTP detects some error during the process of a SMTP Mail which prevents the transmission of the mail to the remote SMTP Server it issues message EZD1813I. This message is WTO issued and can be processed by a System-Automation component. Bu...
5 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Add scan/search capabilities to search through all backup members of a specific element

In the situation where a change tracker managed member must be restored, it’s not always clear which backup version of the member is the right one to restore. As of today, you can get a list of backups by clicking the menu button and the “Recover ...
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

Command output for LI DD,KVTS

We want to work with CUIR. In the output for the Command LI DD,KVTS, should be the jobname and the system name on wich the job is running displayed. We have several TS7700T shared with 21 lpars. It's difficult to find the currently mounted job.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

WLM performance index evaluation period should be reduced to 5 seconds or less

We have critical transactions that all of them should be ended in any case within 3 seconds. Even theses transaction have been properly defined to WLM, during high CPU utilization intervals, some of these transactions run for more than 5 seconds c...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

zCX: Make docker cli available as MODIFY command to the STC

Currently, we've to login to zCX to issue "docker" commands like docker logs to zCX. In an early phase like POC / testing this is no problem. But as we're continuing / have the first production applications running, Operators also have to work wit...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration