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z/OS

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Would like to see a function in ISMF that would display the SETSYS options currently in use

Currently if i do a F DFSMSHSM,Q SETSYS - it is a rather long listing. I might missing a setting like MIGRATION HOLDIt would be great if in ISMF, the current parms as they are set could be displayed in an ISPF Table (not to update, just to view)Th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

zOSMF file transmission delay

When uploading or downloading a large file it seems like nothing happens, but eventually the screen will pop up. Just an immediate confirmation that file transfer has started and then when completed or stopped would suffice.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Job Output More Fields

Ability to display, sort, or filter job output based system or start time/date. Currently, only JOBNAME, Job ID, Status, Owner, Max-CC and Type are options.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow for no accounting information in z/OSMF

Hello, We are requesting for it to be possible to use z/OSMF functions (e.g. rest api's) without the need to define accounting info.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

DFSMShsm FRRECOV enhancement to control FC relationship after FC background copy completion

With the current behavior of the FRRECOV CP(nn) processing in DS8K incremental FlashCopy environment, the FC relationship is withdrawn after FC background copy (BGC) completion. Therefore full volume copy is needed on next FRBACKUP CP(nn) incremen...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF - ISPF app, option to choose background color and/or a z/OSMF 3270 Terminal like Zowe Desktop has.

z/OSMF - For the ISPF app, having the option to choose a background color would be great. Specifically to doctor the ISPF app to resemble a 3270 emulator default color scheme. The white background the apps in z/OSMF tends to strain eyes after awhi...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

SA JES2 SPOOL monitor to detect unusual growth

In normal operation, JES2 spool can fill up and notification is received when we hit the JES2 warning level. The warning level we currently have set is 80% and we have SPOOLSHORT commands in-place to reduce this. However, what we do not have is vi...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION monitor *MASTER* address space

Check PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION should monitor *MASTER* storage exhaustion.Usually when the master address space storage exhausts an IPL is needed to recover. This would not be necessary if PFA had alerted on the gradual storage inflation cau...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 1 Planned for future release

zCX restart capability

Provide the ability to restart zCX. E-mails have been sent to the zCX team.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

add the substr function into ACS routines to simply SMS management for complex environment

I have been working with a customer who wants to obtain the subsystem ID for more generic filtlists and storage group assignments. Something like filtlist XXXSAP INCLUDE(DSN%%%U.**, 'ICF.DRPLEX.%%%SAP') EXCLUDE(DSN%%%%%.ARCHLOG1.**, DSN%%%%%.ARCHL...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

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