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RMF 74.1 should be updated to allow a simple association between related primary and secondary I/Os

When CRS (Consistent Read from Secondary) is activated, RMF data cannot be used to accurately report on the z/OS online I/O activity. Secondary read I/Os are performed to offline devices and there is no possibility of easily associating the origin...
11 days ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer Future consideration

Monitoring Initial Size of Coupling Facility Structures

It was noticed a problem during a Coupling Facility outage when was necessary to move structures from one CF to another CF. The rebuild/recovery process was not completed sucessfully because the INITSIZE of a WMQ Structure was smaller than the req...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES Under review

Optimization output naviquest batch ACBJBARD and ACBJBAXV

We need a optimization output naviquest batch report ACBJBARD (Invokes ACBQBAR7 for dataset) and ACBJBAXV(Invokes ACBQBAR6 for DASD volume report). Currently, in job outputs the space values are left-aligned, and the information may be shown in KB...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest Future consideration

Enhance IOS Channel Path Recovery to Detect and Isolate Persistently Degraded Paths

The current IOS channel path recovery mechanism is effective at detecting and recovering from channel path failures based on qualifying error thresholds within a configured time interval. However, there are scenarios in which a channel path may re...
26 days ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS Submitted

JES2 POLICY: We need the value of node when using /*ROUTE XEQ node or /*XEQ node in our JCL

To convert 5 JES2 exits to a JES2 policy, we need the value of node when using /*ROUTE XEQ node or /*XEQ node in our JCL.The JES2 policy attribute ExecNode contains the resolved node, not the nodename as entered on /*ROUTE XEQ node or /*XEQ node i...
17 days ago in z/OS / JES2 Submitted

OTEL Emitter: Implement possiblity for a STOP command instead of a CANCEL command

Currently, Adv. Data Gatherer OTEL Emitter is not able to be shut down in a normal manner. Instead, it has to be canceled to stop the emitter. A MVS cancel alway results in an ABEND222 what's no normal shutdown procedure. So instead of some unusua...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer Planned for future release

HMC extract in JSON format using BCPII

We need to have a view of the HMC config to compare and do some statistics.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii Submitted

Add query parameter to read or write a set of records in a dataset

We would like to reduce redundant locking and response data volume. It could be as simple as "?start=10&end=23" which would only retrieve records 10-23. If either is not filled start defaults to first record and end to last record. As a bonus,...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Not under consideration

Enhance Shell CP utility to create immutable load module copies

The z/OS UNIX CP command when copying a load module from a data set to a data set does not create an immutable copy. The resulting copy differs from the original source load module which can be seen using SuperC, this is because cp calls the binde...
3 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities Submitted

To capture the SC's LOCK SET NAME from the DCOLLECT

Today, DCOLLECT does not provide the lock structure information, which limits our ability to validate the definitions between the Current SCDS and the New SCDS. The below records are being generated from the DCOLLECT and used for the comparison be...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest Needs more information

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