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z/OS

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ISPF editor: New move command to move a column in file/member.

We want to move columns to another position. Example: Command ===> MVC 7 8 13 Move columns 7-8 to position 13 Example for input 11 12 13 1421 22 23 2431 32 33 2541 42 44 45 Output of MVC 7 8 13: 11 12 14 1321 22 24 2331 32 25 3341 42 45 44 Kind...
26 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted
155 VOTE

Add recovery function for REWIND/LOCATE failure on tape job.

System: z/OS Actor : user needing stronger fault tolerance Description: One of the reason why our customer uses z/OS is its storng fault tolerance. Especially, in multi-path einvironment they expect that I/O job will normally continue its process ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration
103 VOTE

RMF Monitor I Device activity should report about devices that were offline on a part of an interval

System: z/OS USER which uses RMF Actor: User needing RMF Monitor I Device activity report enhancement Description: RMF is a commonly used product on z/OS platform for reporting system resource such as I/O activity. Our customer encountered HyperSw...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

C headers for IEZCOM and IEZCIB macros in SYS1.SIEAHDR.H

To facilitate C/C++ programs employing the EXTRACT and QEDIT macros to detect and respond to STOP and MODIFY operator commands, please provide these headers.
13 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Under review

Edit line command to insert blank lines

Faster and fewer key strokes
27 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

Integrate zowe into the base z/OS product and maintenance stream

zowe is becoming a key part of many installations devops environment and needs to be installed and supported as part of the z/OS service stream. By doing this it will save each site the added steps involved on the installation and maintenance and ...
11 months ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration

zSORT Batch Pipes support

Bradesco uses DFSORT in many of its jobs that run on production LPARs. We recently have put on a project to test and certify the use of zSORT as a way of lowering the elapsed time of our critical jobs in the batch window. We also make use of Batch...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Under review

today there are IRA206I messages that come out showing the top users of storage when you have an Aux storage shortage. But would like to know who is consuming storage Before we run out.

Ideally, we would like to know the top users consuming storage if we hit the 50% limit. (instead of waiting until we hit the critical limits) so when this message is issued, it would be nice to have the IRA206I message issued. IRA205I 50% AUXILIAR...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

Desirable new feature: GROUP revoke inactive days and consequently new user inactivity policy

We have set SETROPTS INACTIVE(60) and this is applicable for all users. However, we have some specific users with the requirement not to be revoked after 60 days but more than this value. So, Inactivity should be helpful to be defined as group att...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the syscall readfile to understand file codepage

Currently readfile only appears to understand files that are tagged with IBM-1047. Files tagged with ISO8859-1 are returned by readfile without translation and are thus unreadable on the EBCDIC platform. readfile is a powerful tool for the rexx de...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

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