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OTEL Emitter: Implement possiblity for a STOP command instead of a CANCEL command

Currently, Adv. Data Gatherer OTEL Emitter is not able to be shut down in a normal manner. Instead, it has to be canceled to stop the emitter. A MVS cancel alway results in an ABEND222 what's no normal shutdown procedure. So instead of some unusua...
2 months ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer Planned for future release

Not evident what to look for when receiving the message: "*IRA131E CRITICAL HIGH COMMON STORAGE SHORTAGE"

During a major change in a production Sysplex LPARs, we have received the *IRA131E message due to a problem with an IMS component not releasing memory and found that it is not evident what to look for in order to locate the exact type of frames in...
5 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) Planned for future release

Support for RFC4880 bis

Hello, I opened the case TS021983792 about this topic. we have a partner that is using GNUPG 2.2.20 and the key generation is using an RFC4880bis which is not compatible with encryption facility. could you provide support for this new RFC4880 bis ...
5 months ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility Planned for future release

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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 months ago in z/OS / Authorized Code Scanner Planned for future release

AMS LISTCAT to display EzNoSQL ordered index attribute on any display that lists cluster RLS data

EzNoSQL Clusters defined that the ordered index attribute set to true behave and have different key format than those set to false. Currently the only method to retrieve this attribute is to open the DB and call the znsq_reports_stats and parse th...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 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...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 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...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS Planned for future release

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