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RMFIII WFEX in batch mode with longer time ranges from 7 to 30 days or more

WFEX (Work Flow Exception) is a performance tool that directly facilitates determination of causes/reasons for delays in workloads. However, the interactive facility on TSO has limitations, it only captures events interactively on short time range...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 12 Functionality already exists

Update OSPF,LIST,ALL display to include ABR status

Update the D TCPIP,,OSPF,LIST,ALL command to add a status YES/NO of whether the given OMPROUTE instance is operating as an OSPF area border router. There doesn't appear to be any existing indication of this other than knowing that there are interf...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add Warning Message to OMPROUTE When Adapter Unexpectedly Attaches to OSPF Area 0.0.0.0

An EZZxxxxx message should be issued by OMPROUTE when an OSPF interface attaches to area 0.0.0.0 by taking the default value of Attaches_to_Area under OSPF_Interface because it was not specified. Creating a warning message when this situation occu...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

SRCHFOR within SDSF

ISPF allows the use of a SRCHFOR primary command from the data set list. The command will search for text within each data set in the list and identify which data sets contain the text. SDSF should support a SRCHFOR command to search the job steps...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 5 Not under consideration

VIEW should have the same support as BROWSE for working with OPEN data sets

We are using ISPF VIEW to filter events in an open LDAP LOG data set (in use by LDAP) for example.After a certain runtime from LDAP, and using ISPF VIEW to filter messages, VIEW terminates with I/O error during opening the LOG.ISPF BROWSE is getti...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

PDSE resource contention in a multi-tasking TSO BATCH environment

This is a former DCR MR0923135057 issued on 23th September 2013 and public RFE of private RFE 47867. According IBM this is already in implementation of next z/OS release. Under the existing z/OS architecture accessing a PDSE resource in a multi-ta...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm does not use UNIT specified in ISPF's ISPF Configuration Utility, but uses SYSALLDA specified in CLIST.

When I try to use the DFSMSrmm "G (Report Generation)" feature, SYS1.SEDGEXE1 (EDGRGREP) runs and userid.REPORT.LIB / userid.REPORT.JCL is allocated.The allocation parameter in SYS1.SEDGEXE1 (EDGRGREP) specifies UNIT (SYSALLDA), so it will try to ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

z13 FICON path selection

a z/13 CPU design issue. An IO subsystem algorithm checks path activity and if one becomes less active it swings processing to the remaining normally efficient path. However, it never rechecks the poorer performing path to allow it to return to th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 2 Not under consideration

Declaration of the symbolic link /usr/bin/env in the standard USS installation

Using node.js or npm requires access to the "env" program at the location /usr/bin.By default, when USS is installed, the "env" program is placed in /bin.A symbolic link /usr/bin/env must be created on /bin/env as specified in the installation pro...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

Display command or healthcheck for RACF use of IRRPRMxx

We are currently converting RACF from ICHRDSNT modules to using parmlib member IRRPRMxx. While this works as designed there is no way to verify after the fact (if the historical IPL syslog/operlog is not available) if RACF is using the ICHRDSNT or...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

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