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AI-Powered WLM - New feature: WLM Service class

Every working day, during the first 5-10 minutes of our main EOD processing (batch), the WLM service classes of online transactions have very bad Performance Index (>4). We would like a similar feature to the new AI-Powered Initiators to protec...
28 days ago in z/OS / AI Framework 1 Needs more information

AI-Powered WLM - New feature: Calendar for DAYOFF definitions

We have a monthly cycle on our daily schedules. Beside the normal working days, there are some days e.g. weekends or day-offs where the scheduled jobs are extremely different. We would like (as first phase of implementing this idea) to have the ab...
29 days ago in z/OS / AI Framework 1 Needs more information

Add Support For Read Only 3390 DASD When Running In LPAR

Maintenance of base and middleware on z/OS systems in my shop is performed on a master system. When new z/OS systems are created, these master volumes are copied to the new system. The cloned system LPARs quickly get out of sync with the master sy...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 3 Needs more information

Desired new feature: JOINKEYS on multiple files and new REFORMAT parms

At the moment only 2 files can be joined using DFSORT JOINKEYS. We would like to join records from more files (e.g. 10 files). Subsequently a new 'A' parm of REFORMAT statement should be useful for values that apeer in all files. Kind regards Kons...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Needs more information

support binder date for pdse member generations

a pdse member generation 0 one can see the binder date but with other generations (-1, -2 etc), this information is not available (using Data Set Commander)
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Needs more information

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