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Allow more than 8 coupling facilities to be defined in a CFRM policy

Currently the maximum CFs per Coupling Facility Resource Management policy is 8. As a large shop we currently have to simultaneously maintain two policies in our production environment (one for prod and one for logical corruption detection/LCD), a...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Functionality already exists

Adding a capability to Reflect RSU Level or Maintenance(APAR Level)

Hello Team, Greetings ! As z/OS SysProgs it is often difficult to keep track of maintenance level at which z/OS LPARs are. I was going over IBM Z community discussion and observed one locally developed solution to address this issue. It was done b...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Core Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

XCF_CF_STR_MAXSPACE health check update

It would be good to update the XCF_CF_STR_MAXSPACE IBM health check so that it displays the current maximum structure space defined in the policy and the current augmented space allocation, when the check is successful. Currently you only see thes...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Functionality already exists

Dedicated (primary) and shared (secondary) group capping

As a MFaaS provider, we have had clients request a dedicated baseline of CPU capacity with the option of expanding beyond that baseline capacity as required and available. For example, a client may require 150 MSUs of GP capacity available at all ...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 1 Functionality already exists

Allow SDSF to do a SETSYS to any LPAR in any SYSPLEX in your enterprise for commands and displays.

A User can be Logged on to one SYSTEM and then do a SETSYS to another LPAR in a different or same SYSPLEX and have full SDSF capability with full user access. This would be very useful and beneficial in enabling the user to get to any LPAR rapidly...
6 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Functionality already exists

USS Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion support for IBM-1141 and other code pages.

We would appreciate an enhancement in Unix System Services – Enhanced ASCII automatic conversion – so that it also works for code pages other than IBM-1047, such as IBM-1141. Currently, the following restriction exists: Only the EBCDIC IBM-1047 en...
6 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Functionality already exists

LISTCAT CATALOG to produce CSV output

Hi, The output of LISTCAT CATALOG should be very efficient to be produced in csv format as well. Having all the information in one line per entry, a system programmer can extract easier the provided information. Kid regards Konstantinos
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

Show information about 2G large pages in SDSF

With more and more address spaces exploiting 2G large pages, the memory usage of ASIDs shown by SDSF in the DA panel (column REAL) loses relevance. We need a column showing the allocated 2G pages in the DA panel. It would be of additional value, i...
8 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Functionality already exists

SMF record to report for rolled off GDGs

GDGs that roll off the base should have an SMF record to show that it was removed. Currently we have no way of showing audit when and who caused the GDG to be removed. DASD datasets do have other SMF record types to show the delete, but CA1 tapes ...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Functionality already exists

Have option to hide or secure password when using AMAPDUPL

Hide or secure password in dataset when using AMAPDUPL thru a proxy.
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Functionality already exists

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