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    An export&import functionality for HMC Information inside Activaiton Profiles

    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, zOS datasets or any other kind of format, making it easier to see the history of changes on...
    10 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 2 Functionality already exists

    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...
    2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Functionality already exists

    Enable flashcopy Command for ESE Volumes

    With the new DS8A00 and FCM4 it is necessary to define all Volumes as type ESE (Extended Space Efficent). But we found that the normal flshcopy command under z/VM doesn't either work with ESE-Volumes. You must establish, copy and withdrawn the Fla...
    9 months ago in z/VM 3 Functionality already exists

    sdsf parmlib option give member name

    We have the sdsf.parm command today. which lists the datasets in parmlib concatenation.It would be good to be able to issue sdsf.parm IGDSMS00 and it displays __ user.parmlib(IGDSMS00) __ sys1,parmlib(IGDSMS00) so I can then browse/edit it directl...
    about 1 month 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...
    7 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Functionality already exists

    Currently there's no check in the COPY command for ADRDSSU to see if the data sets are the RACF databases or not

    Hi - Sometime ago, there was a problem when the data sets which contains the RACF primary and backup databases were moved using ADRDSSU. The data sets were protected as recommended by the books as well as they were assigned the PSU attribute. Howe...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Functionality already exists

    Provide a ascertained historical view of all installed and/or activated capacity records

    Why is it useful? In our installation a variety of different capacity records are used on multiple machines with frequent changes to the activated capacity levels. This makes it cumbersome to reconstruct the active capacity levels for any given po...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link 3 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

    Add YAML support to ISPF HILITE function

    The increased use of YAML in z/OS, this would be helpful for app programmers and systems programmers.
    4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Functionality already exists

    ISPF Edit Highlighting for YAML

    YAML will be the configuration language on z/OS from V3R2 going forward. ISPF should highlight this language.
    4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Functionality already exists

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