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My ideas: Parallel Sysplex

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Coupling Facility - channel status

Whenever there is an HCD IO activation to delete CF links from the CF LPARs, the channels are indeed deleted and no longer available for use, however somehow they remain on the CFCC and showing up on the zOS Display CF command outputs as follows :...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Future consideration

Customer is requesting an RFE to provide a progress indicator for CFCC image activation.

Due to the large amount of storage we define in the CFCC image, it is taking 10 minutes or more for the CFCC Operating System Messages console to come up after we activate a CFCC image. The image activation itself that you initiate at the HMC comp...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Planned for future release

Provide capability to capture hardware events for Coupling Facility problem diagnosis

When customers experience adverse performance results when moving workloads to a new IBM Z hardware architecture, for a z/OS operating system, the z/OS Hardware Instrumentation Service captures hardware event data into SMF type 113 records which a...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Parallel Sysplex 0 Future consideration

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