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z/OS Health Checker HZSPRINT utility enhancemnet

z/OS Health Check utility HZSPRINT provides the user with good information about the checks in place, however it doesn't show the state of it as it could be verified in SDSF for example.

Using the the F HZSPROC,DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAILS it provides the same information available in SDSF, it would be very interesting and valuable if we could replicate those missing values in HZSPRINT utility.

In HZSPRINT if a check is INACTIVE the only information you receive is that * No messages exists * and nothing more, instead if it could display the header with information as in the example below or give the user the ability to select what type of information to capture

from JCL something like:

JCL:

//INPUT DD *

CHECK(*,*),DETAILS

/*

OR

JCL:

//INPUT DD *

CHECK(*,*),STATE

/*

this is the response from F HZSPROC,DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAILS:

CHECK(IBMSMS,SMS_CDS_SEPARATE_VOLUMES)                                  
STATE: INACTIVE(ENABLED)           STATUS: INACTIVE                    
LAST RAN: (N/A)               NEXT SCHEDULED: (INACTIVE)               
INTERVAL: ONETIME                                                      
EXCEPTION INTERVAL: SYSTEM                                             
SYNCVAL: SYSTEM                                                        
SEVERITY: MEDIUM                                                       
DYNAMIC SEVERITY ALLOWED: NO                                           
WTOTYPE: EVENTUAL ACTION                                               
DOM: SYSTEM                                                            
SYSTEM DESCCODE:  3                                                    
THERE ARE NO PARAMETERS FOR THIS CHECK                                 
REASON FOR CHECK:  Prevent single point of failure for ACDS and COMMDS                                              
MODIFIED BY: STMT(27)                                                  
REASON FOR UPDATE: IIC-Dallas - no separation in test env              
DEFAULT DATE: 20090303  USER DATE: 20130208                            
ORIGIN: HZSADDCK                                                       
LOCALE: REMOTE                                                         
DEBUG MODE: OFF  VERBOSE MODE: NO                                      

Idea priority Low