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System Recovery Boost Enhancements

z15 machines have the option of using System Recovery Boost. When an LPAR is starting up from an IPL the Boost activates automatically and can bring online zIIP engines that were offline. These additional engines are identified as transient engine...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 3 Future consideration

Command to remove/add library from LLA/VLF.

To make it more easy and efficient to maintain libraries on the linklist and LLA/VLF, it would be nice if a F LLA command could remove a library without the need to create a CSVLLAxx parmlib member which is time consuming.
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 1 Not under consideration

Automate setting DST in Sysplex with Multiple timezones

We have systems in a sysplex that have different time zones than the one specified via STP. For time zones that change for DST at the same time as the STP time zone we would like the DST change to be automated via STP. This could be managed by int...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Future consideration

Increase the maximum number of Functional Recovery Routines (FRR) entries

In the z/OS operating system, functional recovery routines (FRRs) provide means of recovery when running within SRB routines. FRRs are set through the SETFRR macro and are mapped by the FRRS control block. There is always one set of FRRs per proce...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 2 Future consideration

IPCS Provide support for Format of STR(LS)

IPCS CBFORMAT -address- STR(LS) does not format the Linkage Stack data at the address provided, but instead formats a different Linkage Stack. Which LS that is formatted depends upon the type of DUMP (e.g. SVCDUMP or SADUMP) and other variables kn...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 3 Future consideration

Avoid HIS's deleting WIC files when WIC collection stopped

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 12/04/2022 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: When you use HIS to record WIC records by using this command: F HIS,WIC,INMEM=IFASMF..W...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Future consideration

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almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 0 Not under consideration

Diagnostic information needed if Global Recovery runs for more than a second

Global Recovery is a process within supervisor services that runs on a single logical CPU in a z/OS system while all other logical CPU's are set to run a spin loop. The purpose is to verify some trigger-specific control blocks or control block cha...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 3 Future consideration

HIS: produce Jobname/STCName Records for ALL Asids in the System

HIS procedure a ASID to JOBNAME mapping only for JOBs in MAPASID or MAPJOBJ. It whould be more than nice to extend that function on all ASIDs in the System...not one the ones which should be mapped.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 2 Future consideration

PLAC1209-1297 Improve IEASYM processing to filter by SYSNAME

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: La Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC1209-1297 Improve IEASYM processing to filter by SYSNAMEHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Recogn...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 6 Future consideration

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