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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...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 3 Functionality already exists

Automatic update of MRDB when customer initiates CIU transaction.

Currently when a customer makes a permanent upgrade via CIU, the MRDB must be updated manually by the HW rep or Business Partner, leading to possible future ordering issues if the manual update is not completed.
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Functionality already exists

In the default z/OS distribution predefine empty mount point /dsfs

With the default SMP/E root filesystem please deliver it with a /dsfs mount point so that it is there and won't be lost with maintenance.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 5 Functionality already exists

Accumulative PREFIX

To monitor multiple tasks without constantly resetting PREfix. Ex. During performance tests, I want to watch CTG*, CICS*, DB2*. I would like to see those 3....and only those 3 on 1 screen. So....something like Pre CTG*. Then +PRE CICS*. Then +Pre ...
6 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 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...
9 months ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 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

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...
9 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 4 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

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 ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 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
6 months ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Functionality already exists

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