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Enhance Fault Analyzer so that XFACILIT general resource SAF checks occur first

Please enhance Fault Analyzer so that the XFACILIT SAF checks for history and dump dataset occur FIRST then if they do not provide access the DATASET SAF checks will occur.
about 13 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

VSAM access with RLS=NRI does not show in FA's report

When we are using Fault Analyzer to investigate a VSAM RLS open problem in batch, we found that in the the dump created by the batch the file open status shows all status(INPUT, OUTPUT & I/O) for a VSAM RLS file. After testing, we found the fa...
over 13 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Modify Fault Analyzer to set a default View from the IDI.SIDIVIEW file

Customer would like to be able to set up a system-wide view that can be used as their default. They would like to be able to set this default view in the IDI.SIDIVIEW file.
over 13 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Find in Fault Analyzers views

When using Faault Analyzer in 3270 mode it is possible to issue the Find cammand to search for specific strings.When using the Fault Analyzer perspecive in RDz the views are lacking the Find funktion (the Find is greyed out). Enabing Find in the F...
about 16 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Endevor/Carma support for userdata

Our host implementation of Endevor relies heavily on the Endevor USERDATA field stored with every version of the element in the Endevor MCF. We have used the newly introduce QuikEdit extensions to Display and Modify the Userdata. As a general rul...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Not under consideration

Integrating RDZ and RTC

Our Customer uses the RDZ for editing the files in MVS Mainframe and requested that integrated with RTC control and storage activities in SCM. We follow the guidance published in But we realize the following integration scenario:Since the moment y...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

RDz: You Can't unassociate a PDS member once associated to CARMA

RDz CARMA user can associate a PDS member/Element to CARMA but they do not have the ability to un-associate PDS member/element from CARMA.
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Provide current Endevor processor group name for the element in the PGN dialog box on a "generate element" request

On RDz/CARMA Endevor "Generate Element" requests, Customer would like to have RDz provide the current Endevor Processor Group name for the element in the Processor Group name dialogue box.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Endevor ADD action change behavior of default values

the pre-filling of the fields should not be done from what was entered by the user the action before, BUT from the information got from the EXTRACT
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 8 Not under consideration

Improve SCLM Perspective & SCLM Interface

(1) SCLM perspective uses only the standard RTC editor, and does not allow using LPEX. (2) SCLM File types controlled by separate file type tables instead of using common RDz profile file type tables.(3) The SCLM perspective should not be required...
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration