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IBM Z NetView

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SemiColon not supported by RACF. Netview should translate.

Netview translates several characters (., *, %, &, - and ' '(blank)) prior to making a SAF call because these characters are not supported by RACF. Semicolon is also one that is not supported by RACF (TS006663687). Development should consider ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Review process around starting VTAM dependant Netview autotasks

Note: This “IBM Idea” was suggested to be raised by IBM support as a pathway to fixing an identified product flaw with the re-start of VTAM dependant Netview autotasks. Please refer to case “TS015636631 Gateway links not started post IPL” for a de...
4 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Canzlog should stick to current find standards

CANZLOG find has introduced a separate means of doing a RepeatFind Called REVFIND. This is different then all other means of repeat find via browse. Canzlog should utilize existing standards for repeat find.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Netview ALLOCATE does not permit Concatenations

The Netview allocate command only permits the ability to allocate one dataset to a file name.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Expand delimited length from 255 to 1024

This would help eliminate "DWO378E DELIMITED STRING IS TOO LONG, GREATER THAN 255 CHARACTERS IN LENGTH" when working with PIPEs, and perhaps other areas as well.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Reset Threshold and interval setting in Netview Automaion table

The THRESHOLD and Interval conditions in the Netview automation table are very useful functions for throttling and isolating specific occurrences that should be automated on. Would like a means of resetting these values when certain conditions are...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Time stamp in Canlog should be local time like Netlog

The Canzlog records records using the GMT/UMT time stamp. The Local offset is added after when browsing the logs. Would need to understand the benefit of storing the time in GMT/UMT as opposed to Local.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

NetView Threshold Improvement

Improve NetView message trap condition item THRESHOLD to work with not elapsed time period.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Introduce Python into NetView Scripting

REXX is very easy; we all know how to code it and it is easy to learn for the newbies. Still, all the youngsters seem to know coding with Python. Python provides a readily available toolbox, which will help the new joiners to be productive quickly...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

NetView CANZLOG browse filter condition

We are planning to use 'BR CANZLOG' with several filters. When we issue 'BR CANZLOG' command with several filters, we get results meet all filters' requirements.For example, If we specify 'BR CANZLOG OPERID=AUTOIMS MSGID=DFS', only DFSxxx messages...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration