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FTP HMC Information inside Activaiton Profiles to XML or system datasets

I would like to suggest creating a functionality to transfer all the HMC LPAR and CEC information inside the "Customize/Delete activate profile" to an XML format or zOS datasets, making it easier to see the history of changes on the number of CPCs...

Provide more diagnostic data for Coupling Express Long Reach Adapter Ports

When verifying connectivity of multiple Coupling Express ports,it's time consuming to obtain information such as Tx and Rx power levels to diagnose the health of connections and requires the user to click through various panels on each adapter to ...

JES2 - More granular Security Controls

According to the most current documentation related to zOS 3.1 to control input to your system, it is only possible to control job class usage. See documentation for reference. However, the job class is not the only attribute that shall be control...
2 days ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

make HMC screen "Users and Tasks" data visible to bcpii or some other API

follow up to ZOS-I-4400 We had a problem where a user locked out CBU's by leaving the change model screen. IBM in TS017175982 said that we could look in the Users and Tasks screen to see which HMC and user had done that. We would like the informat...
4 days ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 1 Submitted

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...
20 days ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Submitted

Add SDM recovery when HSM cancels TCT activity

On z/OS, this idea would be a design change to add SDM (system data mover) recovery when HSM (hierarchal storage manager) cancels TCT (tape cloud tiering) activity so that ANTMAIN does not need to be canceled. The SDM recovery should clean up all ...
3 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Submitted

JES2 Performance Enhancements

In order to improve the robustness of JES2 during heavy workload processing spikes, whether intentional or unintentional, we would like to make the following proposal: An AI solution for anomaly detection with corresponding definable actions Addit...
5 days ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Submitted

Support more than 4 Subchannel Sets in each LCSS

With the plan of defining a MM 4-Site disk topology, the base devices of each copy of disk will occupy all the 4 Subchannel Sets currently supported leaving no Subchannel Set for defining Alias devices. Therefore to support a MM 4-site disk topolo...

Buffering log of NIP console

If an IPL of a z/OS system gets stuck in the NIP phase there is only very limited information available on diagnosing the error. Usually it is only the 24 lines of output on the NIP console. If the messages describing the error roll out of the con...
23 days ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Submitted

make bcpii V1 HWI_RESERVEID information visible in V2 API

W we had a problem during a DR test where we were not able to do a CBU (via EMC GDDR software which uses BCPii) because someone had left a panel open. IBM says that HWI_RESERVEID is in the old (version 1) of BCPii would have let us know that his w...