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Provide way to regenerate ISRF05* messages after RESET SPECIAL

When editing or viewing a PDSE V2 member when generations are active, various ISRF05* messages may be inserted at the beginning of the member. Issuing RESET SPECIAL (for example, deleting COMPARE output) will delete these lines. It would be nice i...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

MVS "VARY OFFLINE" for an offline device should not request SYSIEFSD Q4 ENQ for 5 seconds

The current implementation for processing a VARY-OFFLINE-command is to request the "SYSIEFSD Q4" enqueue exclusively and cancel this request after 5 seconds if it could not be obtained.If due to some error or during allocation recovery some shared...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Future consideration

ISPF Allocation (3.2) key label entry should provide an option to validate

The Key Label should be able to be validated prior to allocation. This can be via a selection list or just validating the key label. A selection list would be ideal given the length of the labels and thus the chance of a finger check (user 0FC) :D
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Sorting file/directory names in ISPF UDLIST using case in sensitivity should be configured with a site wide default using ISPCCONF

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almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

REALLOCATE TEST should provide more screening for potential structure duplexing issues.

REALLOCATE TEST needs to provide additional screening for potential structure duplexing issues. For example, if a REALLOCATE is performed while a structure is in simplex mode with DUPlEX(ENABLED) . and only failed-persistent structures, the REALLO...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Group initiator controls in jes2

Currently in Jes3 initiator counts can be controlled at class and group level. In jes2 although there is the concept of groups for classes, initiator counts can only be controlled at class level.I would like to see this introduced in jes2 to confo...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

DIAG/AUTOIPL inconsistencies

While using another IBM product (TDMF), we discovered that AUTOIPL processing doesn't use the Unit Addresses consistently. The IPL address (derived from MVS(LAST)) works fine because it's gotten from the UCB, however the IODF Unit Address (contain...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Further modify the PDSE monitor's processing

Through cases of Blocked Workload when lower priority tasks hold resources but do not get sufficient CPU time to complete their work and then release those resources which are in turn being waited on by higher priority tasks. • Seen in CPU constra...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

Improve LDAPSRCH performance in z/VM

We use LDAPSRCH to query our enterprise identity management system from z/VM applications to gather required information. The z/VM version LDAPSRCH is extremely slow, taking around 3 seconds for a simple query. The identical query runs <.5 seco...
almost 4 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

SMP/E support of additional data element MCS types incorporating expanded use of NLS localization.

Data element MCSs describe elements that are neither macros, modules, or source. Any type of data element may be installed in any target or distribution library that meets documented requirements for data set organization, LRECL, and BLKSIZE. IBM ...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

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