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IBM Z NetView

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Support RMTCMD IP for the Blog, CANZLOG and labelled commands

We are trying to run our Netview RMTCMD setup with SNA being turned off and using only RMTCMD IP mode. The BLOG command is coded to use only RMTCMD SNA using the keyword LU= and not the DOMAIN= and IP= keyword that can allow the RMTCMD over IP. Th...
6 days ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Submitted

Support square brackets expressions for REXX MATCH() function

We need to match system application names containing a small list of characters at a specific position: IM\d[PS]CTLThis would give us the possibility the differ between our 2 production environments and our 5 development environments. A normal wil...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Preserve the contents of /etc/netview/snmp/persist/snmpapp.conf (if one exists) when an error occurs with SNMP TRAP command

The current format of the SNMPv3 EngineID used by NetView is random. It has been observed when the snmpapp.conf file is renamed or destroyed, a new file is created that contains a new EngineID value, which will cause problems with the destination ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Under review

The data contained in SMF 38 Subtype 4 command statistics data records should be identical to CMDMON dataspace

The data contained in SMF 38 Subtype 4 command statistics data records should be identical to CMDMON dataspace, i.e., CMDMON DISPLAY command. We would like to use standard SMF reporting tools to identify frequently run code by checking the 'comman...
7 months ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Not under consideration

SAF data set access check for target task's user profile to consider access of user profile for the task from which the command originated.

When using EXCMD to route a dataset update through an autotask, we have noticed that the access used is the access of the autotask itself, rather than the orignating user. This means that a user could maliciously update datasets just by routing th...
8 months ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Update SCNMLNK1 member ISTIECCE to tolerate supported versions of NetView

Providing the ability for new versions of NetView to tolerate supported versions of ISTIECCE (and perhaps ISTIETMN?) would allow significantly higher availability for VTAM users. Per Communications Server documentation: "Because VTAMLIB is opened ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

pipe PARSE function in EDIT STage should permit the utilization of Hex Strings.

Command output may have data separators of specific hexstrings instead of the standard X'40' Currently the Edit stage does not permit the usage of hexString in the PARSE function which indicates you cannot separate the data.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Add 'UP' WTO message to NetView TSO Server

Having an 'UP' (initialization complete) WTO message should in theory ensure the NetView TSO Server application is fully functional. As a WTO, it would also provide for efficient automated monitoring. Using IEF403I tells one nothing other than the...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Enhance RESOURCE command and resulting display to show above the bar memory usage

Current memory consumption information, resulting from RESOURCE command, is incomplete. It is important to know memory usage above the bar, especially as NetView migrates to using more of it.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Suspend & resume timers from Netview commands

Using SETTIMER panel, we suspend & resume timers during DR excercise. But since there are many timers sometimes it's a tedious job. To facilitate the same via script, there seems to be no option to suspend & resume timer via commands. Only...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration