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Determining CPU Usage per Application in TCPIP Stack

We would like to determine the cost and CPU usage of each application running under each address space. Specifically, we need to identify how much CPU usage is consumed by each application under the TCP/IP workload. For example, if the TCP/IP addr...
18 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

AT-TLS Check Client DNS in Certificate CN/SAN

Currently it is possible to define connection as requiring ServerWithClientAuth. This causes the TLS handshake to check that the client certificate is signed by a known CA. Can the configuration options for this check be extended to check that the...
19 days ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Under review

SMF record full day validation with DATE and DUMP option

Currently the IBM recommended way to verify SMF signatures is to use RELATIVEDATE and ARCHIVE which is not the perfect solution for all situations. We need the same support as introduced with OA57046 as well for DATE and DUMP options. This because...
17 days ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Under review

AI System Service MLz setup to be more z/OS-like

Currently, the MLz setup for the z/OS AI Services has to be done with z/OS. There is a lot of input and a lot of customer specific customization that has to be done there (security, AT-TLS and other stuff). That could be very complicated. Back in ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 0 Under review

Display Issue with TSO CQUERY PATHS Command

After issuing CESTPATH and CESTPAIR to establish a pair from A-Vol to B-Vol, the customer ran the TSO CQUERY PATH command against B-Vol. However, the output displayed the values of SERIAL#, SSID, and LSS for the Primary as those of A-Vol. These va...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Under review

Add "WLM Capping %" field in SDSF "System Information(SYS)" screen

Currently in "System Information(SYS)" screen, I am able to see the MSU, SysMSU and AvgMSU fields. However, by looking only at these fields, I am not able to tell whether the system is still under WLM Capping. Because AvgMSU is only showing the 4 ...
13 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Under review

DFSMSrmm CDS extents notification

Currently when RMM CDS that is defined as extended format and multivolume, when it runs out of space on volume, even though it can be extended to another volume, following message is received based on CDSFULL parameter, default is 95%. If the CDS ...
26 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Telum I/II monitoring/reporting/controls

Add mechanisms to control/limit what applications and workloads (NNDA flagged) will have access to Telum I/II accelerators in the machines. Controls could be done via HMC on a hypervisor level similarly to how processors assignments and weight dis...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Under review

SMF - Add additional parameter to dump 30min before/after midnight

The dump utility IFASMFDL/P require a (new) parameter when dumping a full day to include 30min before the day and 30min after the day to avoid the need to dump 3 days worth of data to validate a single day.This would be partially related to anothe...
17 days ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Under review

DFSMSrmm: Ability to patch CDS records

Currently there are certain situations where certain records in the CDS, records such as volume, data set, vrs, owner... are in error and TSO RMM commands cannot be used to fix the issue as reported by EDGUTIL VERIFY(ALL) and customer is forced to...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review