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    When generating an RPTEXT report in DFRMM, tapes may appear twice due to simultaneous delete and insert operations on the Control Dataset (CDS), and a design change is proposed to ensure consistent data

    We are creating an RPTEXT report in DFRMM. It can happen that a tape is listed twice in the report output if the tape previously had the status "scratch" and is now being written by a batch job during the report generation. According to informatio...
    about 10 hours ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Submitted

    require persistent connectivity for SPLUNK in DATAPUMP

    We send data to SPLUNK and recent update has broken the process. Product needs persistent connectivity, like it is has with InfluxDB to function.
    1 day ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

    DFSMSrmm VRSEL and EXPROC specify system id to only process volumes created on that system

    Currently in a non fully shared catalog environment in a RMMPlex and CATSYNCH is not setup, and have a WHILECATLG=YES VRS assigned, if you were to run VRSEL on a system where the catalog is not available/not connected, catalog lookup SVC26 will no...
    13 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

    Support for 32 TB of real memory per LPAR via feature statement

    Would like to be able to have fewer, larger LPARs. If the reconfigurable memory is the limiting factor, then for cases where reconfigurable/dynamic memory is not needed, it should be possible to include a config file statement that disables/bypass...
    8 days ago in z/VM 0 Submitted

    DFSMSrmm: EDGAUD ability to select by data set name

    EDGAUD Currently the EDGAUD utility used to generate reports using SMF record is limited to using following selections: DATE INTERNALRACKS USERSVOLUMES It would be useful to also include DATASET name. Only other way to get information by data set ...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

    z/VM TCPIP : add support to VMSSL for SNI(Server Name Indication)

    We require this to allow for connections to cloud provisioned services under Openshift and without SNI within zVM VMSSL this is not possible.
    6 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

    Enable Ansible integration with z/VM

    Ansible Automation is an extremely popular tool that is available on many platforms (including zOS) except for zVM. While providing native SSH access to zVM may be unrealistic I believe that leveraging a Linux VM with SMCLI to communicate to SMAPI...
    9 months ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

    RMM MCATTR

    Currently, The EDGRMMxx parmlib option operand MCATTR enables the use of SMS management class attributes that are relevant for tape management by DFSMSrmm. These attributes are the ‘Expire after Date/Days’, ‘Expire after Days Non-usage’, ‘Retentio...
    4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

    Enable flashcopy Command for ESE Volumes

    With the new DS8A00 and FCM4 it is necessary to define all Volumes as type ESE (Extended Space Efficent). But we found that the normal flshcopy command under z/VM doesn't either work with ESE-Volumes. You must establish, copy and withdrawn the Fla...
    9 months ago in z/VM 3 Functionality already exists

    Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

    Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

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