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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...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Functionality already exists

DSFS Utility file system name specification.

DSFS looks for "filename.SYSNAME" allocation of the liniear dataset, even when specifying only "filename" in the BPXPRMxx paramaters. Remove the requirement for "filename.SYSNAME" and use what is specified in BPXPRMxx member (do not add .SYSNAME a...
7 months ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance active and status displays with acee userid

Please add to these displays a column with the ACEE Userid - I'm not sure where owner is coming from but we have started tasks that are started by a server address space under the started task userid and then change to a specific userid which is r...
7 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 4 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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

Add BLOCK COMMANDS to JES

I want to be able to issue block commands in JES output. Sometimes we have to manually clear output and I have to issue P on each output. Even if I copy/paste the column of Ps, there are still many screens to paste. I want to be able to use: //p //p
4 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

Is IBM health check VSAMRLS_TVS_ENABLED still required under zOS v3.1 ?

Now that DFSMStvs is included in the base install of zOS v3.1, health check VSAMRLS_TVS_ENABLED excepts as it now finds the product installed but not enabled. I suspect the majority of zOS customers do not enable this now free product? so would ha...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 5 Functionality already exists

HSM to support multiple CMD members

Sometimes in DR situation, we will be needing special commands to be submitted when HSM comes up. For this, we can issue those via automation. But whenever there is an IPL or when HSM is recycled, those commands will be lost. Instead of depending ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Functionality already exists

Suggest BCI instruction, I4 field to branch forward up to 32 bytes without clearing cache.

A variation of the BCR instruction. Instead or the R destination field, the I4 Immediate 4 bit field would be 0 skip 0 or 2 bytes after instruction, 2 skip 2 or 4 bytes after instruction, ..., 15 skip 30 or 32 bytes after instruction. The miniscul...
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Functionality already exists

Please modify SDSF RACF calls to class JESSPOOL to use the RACF group(not RACF userid) to validate if a user has access to view/modify output.

This would be useful because users in a group should be able to view /modify all output created by userids in their group. Currently, SDSF only checks the userid of the output and many RACF groups contain many(5-50) userids so it would be very ben...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Functionality already exists

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