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Status Needs more information
Workspace z/OS
Categories General
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 24, 2025

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Smart Control Block Visualizer

Replace traditional “hex dump style” printing with an intelligent, structured, and human-readable representation of control blocks.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Sep 30, 2025
    IBM needs some additional detail to evaluate this request. What is the use case for your request? Today IPCS and WebIPCS can provide formatted control blocks in a dump or against the active system, but not in this particular format being requested. Who would be providing the control block address and indicating which control block it belongs to? Or is this a request for all control blocks in a particular address space or across the system in all address spaces? These are things that IPCS currently is not capable of and would take some significant engineering to complete.
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