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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

Avoid HIS's deleting WIC files when WIC collection stopped

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 12/04/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: When you use HIS to record WIC records by using this command: F HIS,WIC,INMEM=IFASMF..W...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF: Allow user supplied jobcard for "Send Dianostic data" in the Incident log.

The "Define Job Settings" step in the "Send Diagnostic Data" wizard supplies a (documented) JOBCARD default: //PDWFTP JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1) /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=* This jobcard can be modified by the current user and is saved in the /usr/<%userid> d...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Need more detailed explanation about analyzing the possible causes of message IOS080I

My customer wants to use the I/O timing facility of z/OS ( MIH IOTIMING paramenter) with the option for message-only processing.The manual describes the 4 possible causes of the message IOS080I indicating that the I/O exceeded the I/O timeout inte...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

General settings page for workflows to set time-limitations

Support a new general setting page in Workflows and the user can set the time-limitation for all workflow users in this new general setting page, the time limitation can be set for different scopes, for example: the time limitation can be set for ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Update Security Configuration Assistant Plug-In to allow ability to permanently ignore some failures.

If a particular failure will never be changed, this would allow for a "clean" report. This would allow administrators to focus on important failures. A method should also be supplied to examine all excluded failures in case the situation changes.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

USS HealthChecks

We are requesting to add USS health checks to Health Checker for z/OS to validate correct USS configuration and also identify best practices. Some items that we would like checked: (1) Validate permission bits for /etc, /dev, /tmp (i.e. ensure tmp...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

VSAM RLS KSDS to monitor pseudo splits

Bradesco Bank want IBM to add a way to monitor RLS VSAM (KSDS) 'Pseudo Split' occurrences. Customer wants to have a capability that can be used to implement a governance process for this purpose. "Pseudo split" situation is where new records are i...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration

Remove appending a number to <8 character USS forked jobnames

For jobnames that are <8 characters, when the parent process forks a new process the new processes jobname becomes the parent jobname with a number from 1-9 appended. If the jobname is 8 characters long then the child processes jobnames are equ...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Highlight/select a range of workflow steps to automate

Today you can right-click on a workflow step and select Perform. If the step is marked as eligible for automation then the user is asked if they would like to run the step automatically (with various options).It would be nice if the user could sel...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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