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Separate message when configuring CHPID OFFLINE or ONLINE and CHPID is already offline or online

RBC is asking for a separate message when they CONIFG a CHIPD ONLINE or OFFLINE and the CHPID is already in that desired state. Currently, all it says is CONFIG processing is complete. For example:CHPID is ONLINE... CF CHP(85),OFFLINEIEE503I CHP(8...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Track Service class CPU for only CP - Currently CPU usage in service units includes CP and ZIIP usage.

Currently CPU usage in service units includes CP and ZIIP usage. From TSO the consumption is available on RG panel. From HTTP Data Portal is available with report : service rate by WLM service class [8D1FC0]. In a context where ZIIP processor is h...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Maximum same GDG parallel recall

In an GDG Extended environment, concurrent recall of too many (up to 999) GDSs may cause issues, the main ones being:1) Flood HSM recall queue with too many recalls, which can be:Too fast: With BATCH_RCLMIGDS(PARALLEL) in ALLOCxx all 999 recalls w...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

bpxwunix login should mirror actual omvs/ssh login

bpxwunix login processing should mirror a true login via ssh or TSO OMVS - something it does not do today. Any scripts that are invoked from within the /etc/profile, /u/userid/.profile (or .bashrc ...) that set environment variables fail to set th...
9 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

z/OS 3.1 SDSF and "FS - File systems OMVS" MOUNTPARM Truncated to 57 chars.

The z/OS OMVS MOUNTPARM: parameter can be up to 1024 characters long. Suggestion: 1. If not possible for SDSF to return the complete MOUNTPARM value up to 1024 then please tell this in the: SDSF Help Text panel ( F1 Help Key) Help-Text MOUNTPARM !...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

TASID - Make Open Source

Suggest IBM make TASID 'Open Source' code and place it on the CBT tape. As noted in the below IBM website, "This tool is available on an 'AS IS' basis" and "In z/OS 2.2, some functions do NOT operate correctly. Selecting option 4, Initiator Status...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

ICSF should allocate its DD cards after JES is up when started SUB=MSTR

Please enhance ICSF so that when we start it up SUB=MSTR it will eventually allocate it's DD card post JES starting up. The RACF address space exhibits this behavior today so it stands to reason it should be possible with ICSF.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Remove limitation of 1500 entries in D RRS,UREX

From an RRS perspective the D RRS,UREX command does not show any URs when the count exceeds the limit of 1500 entries. D RRS,UREX ATR624I 11.00.42 RRS UR EXCEPTION SYSTEM URID WAIT FOR * Data truncated. DISPLAY RRS work area exceeded This is a des...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

hide out IBM default FTPS and HTTPS servers in z/OSMF 'FTP Servers' plugin

Hello,it is not possible to delete or hide the list of IBM standard FTP Servers (e.g. for z/OSMF Incident Log plugin usage). The option for 'Remove' is greyed out for these IBM default FTP servers. I would prefer a 'Hide' option here to be able to...
6 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

BLKSize of 16KB is much less than TapeBlkSZLim of 256K

DFSMShsm only writes 16K-Blocks to Tape,both for Migration and Backup.Many of our files are greater ones, which would participate much of larger block sizes.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 7 Planned for future release

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