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OMC-FLASH Enhancement Survey

Share Your Opinions on OMC-FLASH Enhancements...

As a valued OMC-FLASH user, we'd like your opinions on the most important enhancements you'd like to see incorporated into the OMC-FLASH JES2 and JES3 Spool Management Solution.

Please take a few short minutes to review the potential enhancements below, and let us know how they rank in priority from your point of view.

Please Note: All User submitted OMC-FLASH WISH Items have been accounted for in the release planning process. Do not be concerned if you do not see your WISH items among the potential enhancements listed below.

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OMC-FLASH Potential Enhancements:

DC Enhancements
Code: 1-A Create Internal Buffer to Store Commands, and Allow Retrieve of Any Stored Command on DC, EMCS displays. Top Priority
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Details: Provide RETRIEVE function so previous commands can be retrieved in the DC and EMCS command line for re-execution.

Code: 1-B Support Custom Screen Sizes for Displays. Top Priority
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  Details: OMC-FLASH will support non-standard screen sizes for DC and EMCS.
Expanded Job Selection Criteria
Code: 4-A Standardize Pull-down Menus Across all Panels. Top Priority
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  Details: Standardize pull-down menus to enhance the common "look and feel" throughout OMC-FLASH displays.

Code: 4-B Rename "Job Sort" Pull Down Menu. Top Priority
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  Details: Rename the "Job Sort" pull-down to "Extended Sort" and add entries for the JSP, DIP, and other dynamic display panels.
Enhanced Job Selection Display
Code: 5-C Allow Sorting on Any Column in the SORT Primary Command. Top Priority
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  Details: Include the capability to sort on any available column directly from the SORT primary command

Code: 5-E Flag Duplicate Job Names. Top Priority
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  Details: Add the -D indicator to the status field when a job has the same name as another job in the system and is waiting for that job to finish execution.

Code: 5-I Real Storage Utilization Field Update. Top Priority
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  Details: Modify the value displayed on the Jobname Selection Panel (JSP) from 4k frames to the actual value.
Enhanced Data Set Index Panel
Code: 6-B Add Parameters to the SORT Command. Top Priority
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  Details: Allow the user to specify SORT col A/D, as available on the JSP.

Code: 6-C Selection Criteria for DIP. Top Priority
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  Details: Allow selection of DIP entries by class, dest, and other fields.
Enhanced Copy Function
Code: 8-A Retain JES3 Control Block Dataset Attributes in
the COPY Function.
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  Details: Propagate the fields in the Copy Function panel with the attributes of a SYSOUT data set that is to be copied. This includes record format, logical record size, block size, UCS, FCB, CHAR, etc.
Enhanced SAF security interface
Code: 13-C Support MSGSUPP= parameter in FLASHSAF macros to suppress security system messages produced when access is denied. Top Priority
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  Details: Add MSGSUPP option to have FLS request security failure messages not be displayed by security systems. These failures will be indicated by FLS messages to the user.

Code: 13-E FLSHSAF Log Function / Diagnostic Tool. Top Priority
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  Details: The TRACE SAF ON command will provide more detailed information about the flow of processing through the customer's FLASHSAF module.
Enhanced Operation
Code: 15-E Revise Command Summary Help Panels. Top Priority
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  Details: Expand and update the Command Summary Panel, which is a matrix describing the commands available from each FLS panel.

Code: 15-H Automatically restart OMC-FLASH on a JES3 DSI. Top Priority
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  Details: Automatically restart OMC-FLASH server on a JES3 Dynamic System Interchange.

Code: 15-I Support Coupling Facility. Top Priority
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  Details: Utilize coupling facility for cross system communications.
Enhanced Documentation
Code: 16-A Enhanced Documentation of all Messages. Top Priority
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  Details: Document all messages in the User Manual. Document all messages in the Reference Manual.

Code: 16-B Document all User Abend codes. Top Priority
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  Details: Document all User Abend codes in the OMC-FLASH Reference manual.
Enhanced Dynamic Display
Code: 18-B Add a Facility to Maintain User's Profile Settings. Top Priority
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  Details: Add a facility to maintain all user's profile settings including, but not limited to, new dynamic display information, copy profiles, filters, etc. Users will be able to modify and delete their own existing settings.

Code: 18-E Enhance the DEFAULT CONFIG Command. Top Priority
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  Details: Include layout selection/de-selection in site-wide defaults. The DEFAULT CONFIG command will present a list of available layouts with the current site-wide defaults pre-selected. Users can select or de-select layouts and save the new list as the site-wide default.
Deployment and Support
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19-D

Make each JSP Line Command reentrant and/or callable from any OMC-FLASH Screen. Top Priority
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  Details: Modify the DIP, Outlist, Copy and other JSP functions so they can be utilized from other FLASHER entry points and screens. Include commands such as expand, browse, edit, etc.
Support
Code: 20-B Correctly Handle USERMODS when New Maintenance
is Applied.
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  Details: Ensure that changes to any STFLMAC causes the correct USERMODs to be reassembled, and that the source for these reassemblies is from the USERMOD.
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