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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 18, 2025

ISPF panel IBM APA for z/OS Observation List changing the Date/Time display column

Currently the panel display the Date/Time as: Oct-24 11:23; this month is obviously from a different year since we have not reached yet that month in the current yar. Therefore, my idea is that the Date/Time include the year-month-day for instance 2019-10-24 11:23 or something similar to alert the viewer when that observation took place. Just for maintenance purposes, an observation that was taken 20 years ago when the hardware might have been from a different type of processor might not be too relevant today and could be cleaned from the system (or might not). Or if not for any other reason, alert the viewer easily when the observation was taken in time and space.

Idea priority Low