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Provide PROCLIB display with ISRDDN

ISRDDN should provide a PROCLIB display, similar to LPA, APF, or LINKLIST, to display JES2 proclib information.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Future consideration

z/OSMF should have the ability to create default dialogs

z/OSMF should have the ability to create default dialogs that are needed for the ISPF & SDSF plug-in and task.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Support Posix semaphores

The Posix semaphore mechanism (defined by these APIs: sem_open/sem_close/sem_unlink/sem_trywait/sem_wait/sem_timedwait/sem_post/sem_init/sem_destroy/sem_getvalue) is an alternative to the XSI semaphore mechanism currently implemented in z/OS. Posi...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Future consideration

We need enhancement to CPM(Capacity Provision manager) product to overcome limitations so it can be a fully usable product

We need enhancement to CPM(Capacity Provision manager) product to overcome limitations so it can be a fully usable product >CPM is unable to change the HMC values for weight and logical engines and we need this to be possible by the product >...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 5 Future consideration

Provide an additional parameter on the FORCE console command that would bypass the Q10 enqueue

The FORCE command does indeed try to obtain Q10 in order to run the CSCB chain and find the JOBNAME you are trying to FORCE. The task in CNMPROC that issued the FORCE JOBNAME command and is now WAITing on the Q10 resource from the ENQ issued by th...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Future consideration

Allow customer deployed Linux in zCX address space

Allow customer deployed Linux in zCX address space
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Save progress during deployment of Portal Software Instance

If connection is lost all progress on that step is lost. This causes several extra hours. Now you can only save progress between steps.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF Console view

When using z/OSMF console UI interface it is impossible to switch to the OPERLOG view when messages are arriving into the CONSOLE view. To be able to switch to the OPERLOG view we need to LOCK the console - back-out of the view /select console / a...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

NETSTAT STATS doc update and output enhancement

The output values (counter) for 'SEGMENTS SENT' and 'SEGMENTS RETRANSMITTED' of command 'D TCPIP,,NETSTAT,STATS' wrap after *4'294'967'295 to 0.*Need to be verified by IBM. This 'wrapping situation' happens in our environments about every 7 to 10 ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

ZOSMF submitting jobs should also be controlled by surrogat class

The started task of z/OSMF can submit jobs without being checked on having a permit on a profile in the surrogat class.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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