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Metal C Run-time Library

OAM: Allow global defaults in CBROAMxx PARMLIB member

There are parameters in CBROAMxx that have to be specified for each Storagegroup individually. For us, that means 1068 lines of PARMLIB definition which are the same for each Storagegroup. In times of simplification, it should be possible to defin...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM Planned for future release

Be able to configure the AI framework without giving authorizations to improper user

Today it is not possible to run the workflows with the same user that is supposed to run the AI Framework. Instead you have to set up an interactive user with higher authority than any other user in the system and run the workflow. After that all ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework Planned for future release

Split 31/64 Bit environments create 2 enclaves both think they own //SYSOUT and over-write each other when writing //SYSOUT to Disk DataSet. //SYSOUT needs to be owned by the initiating Enclave only.

With the need to go to the 64-bit Java JNI for storage reasons, three of our customers all write //SYSOUT from some jobs to Disk. From Discussions with IBM both with Tickets: TS019872641 (COBOL) – closed - Low Severity, Question on JCL/JES //SYSOU...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / LE Planned for future release

Customize initial parameters

z/ACS calls modules with various parameters, however for the vendors of the products we know various initial parameters which when used will cause various code paths to be taken. This would allow a greater code coverage of our own products when us...
2 months ago in z/OS / Authorized Code Scanner Planned for future release

Add a radio button to select the correct Capacity record on the Temporary Model Conversion page

Now that we have multiple temporary capacity records available. I would like to see a radio button selection to make sure you select the correct temporary record that you want to use.
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link Planned for future release

Allow VSAM Data Sets To Consider Previously Used Volumes Prior To Extend Failures

Allow new extents for VSAM data sets to consider previously used volumes before failing the extend with out of volume error.The feature will be very useful to Db2 tablespace and index extend processing which will provide additional Db2 object avai...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM Planned for future release

OSC Support for optical fiber 10G/25G

The only available speed for OSC on optical fiber is 1G, this is available on z17 with the OSA Express7S 1.2 GbE card. 1G optical fiber is not part of modern network infrastructure, therefore an option to run OSC on modern infrastructure with at l...
5 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking Planned for future release

Increase Record Length of WRITETOFILE Output

When we run an Audit batch job, the SYSPRINT records are 121 bytes long, so the entire report is shown. However, when we use the WRITETOFILE parameter, the records that are written to the dataset specified on the OUTFILE DD are only 80 bytes long,...
5 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker Planned for future release

Better way of managing OPENs and CLOSEs of RLS files across Sysplex

Currently SMSVSAM design treats operations of Open and Close of VSAM RLS files across the sysplex as a single thread process. In big environments this can be time consuming and hurt performance during heavy workload scenarios. It would be importan...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS Planned for future release

Add Additional Arabic Characters to z/OS Unicode 13488 to 420 Conversion

U+0625 - إ - ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW cannot be translated to CCSID 420. There are no HAMZA BELOW code points or Ligature code points for Alef With Hamza below in the current translation table. Currently, there are normalizations in the...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Unicode Planned for future release

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