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    Avoid Remote VL CP Penalties By Utilizing Local Resources When Drawer Fit Fails

    On IBM z16 servers, we have observed a significant increase in the cost of accessing data/memory located in a remote drawer. In certain scenarios, this can result in a notable increase in CPI, leading to an LPAR’s CPU utilization doubling -or even...
    6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future consideration

    Enable System Recovery Boost for DMR Events Triggered By Drawer Swaps

    On IBM z16 servers, we have observed a significant increase in the cost of accessing data/memory located in a remote drawer. In certain scenarios, this can result in a notable increase in CPI, leading to an LPAR’s CPU utilization doubling -or even...
    6 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Future consideration

    IZUFPROC Abend S222 and S013E Logrec Entries

    S222 abends are generally expected when the RESTFiles requests have finished their processing. When a request first arrives, REST Files creates a TSO Address Space to handle the request, which remains available after use so that subsequent request...
    8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Ability to configure a log off on idle user (automatic logoff after timeout) on the HMS/SE

    Our customer was asking for this option - is it available - how can it be activated/ deactivated (case TS018530378) It appears it is not possible to configure and idle user to be logged off from the HMC/SE - for me it makes perfect sense to have t...
    9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Allow custom TCP Ports for SFTP Boot

    HMC should allow to add custom TCP Ports to boot from an SFTP source. At the moment, it just uses TCP Port 22 but when the customer runs his SFTP/SSH Server on a non-standard Port, the HMC is not able to connect.Ideally the HMC allows entries like...
    7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 0 Future consideration

    Add link encryption capabilitys to coupling express adapters

    As of today, coupling express (LR and SR) adapters are not capable of link encryption functionality. The sysplex functionality of logically encrypting CF structures like LIST and CACHE structures is good but does not cover the need to have "everyt...
    7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 2 Future consideration

    Use NEWNAMEunconditional on zOSMF backup of source datasets

    On systems where the HLQ of source datasets only exist on the source system, a catalog error on the target system is encountered when the restore job runs even though RENAMEunconditional is used to rename to a HLQ that exists on the target system....
    29 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    Extension of "Manage System Time" tab overview with NTP configuartion on z16 oscillator cards

    Beginning with IBM z16, the STP physical connection to the time servers (PTP or Network Time Protocol (NTP)) is no longer established through the HMC. The time servers are connected now directly to the CEC (bypasses the SE connection).So each of t...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 1 Future consideration

    Provide options to cancel active user sessions

    It would be beneficial to have options to cancel active user sessions in order to comply with an audit requirement. This would involve providing the following options: Enhancing the Usage Satatistics plugin by selecting a box beside a User ID, the...
    11 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

    z/OSMF StorageAPI Get MegaBytes/GigaBytes instead of Tracks, get Used-Percent

    Hello, we are using /zosmf/storage/rest/v1/storagegroups for checking our z/OS Storage Groups for enough freespace / storage Monitoring. We found out, that we are only able to get trackNumbers, but not GigaBytes as measurement unit,in ISMF (ISPF) ...
    7 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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