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RFE for DS QLIB distlib DELETE

When moving an IBM tape cluster from one tape grid to another in the same plex, have found that with a one IODF Activate that a cluster will be defined to two composite (2 grids). By expanding the current DS QLIB,composite,DELETE to expand to usin...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

zOS Ported Tools SSH FACILITY BPX.SMF Processing Improvements

RFE for Improvements to FACILITY BPX.SMFReference: OA48775.pdf The DoD STIG Team evaluated changes to FACILITY BPX.SMF that provide granular profile capabilities in the format BPX.SMF.<type>.<subtype>. We also participated in a telecon...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to dynamically increase JES2 initiators

Increasing the number of JES2 initiators requires a change to INITDEF PARTNUM, and then a JES2 warmstart. This is extremely disruptive and creates an outage. JES2 should provide a means to dynamically increase PARTNUM without requiring a JES2 warm...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

We need enhancement to CPM(Capacity Provision manager) product to overcome limitations so it can be a fully usable product

We need enhancement to CPM(Capacity Provision manager) product to overcome limitations so it can be a fully usable product >CPM is unable to change the HMC values for weight and logical engines and we need this to be possible by the product >...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 5 Future consideration

Sysplex couple dataset has insufficient room for growth

Health check XCF_SYSPLEX_CDS_CAPACITY alerts with message IXCH0602E indicating one of the Sysplex couple dataset resources has hit the maximum threshold. Message IXCH0911I informs which kind of resource (XCF GROUPS, XCF GROUP MEMEBERS or SYSTEMS) ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

Relief for High CPU with KDFAES Password Encryption

After activation of KDFAES Password encryption, high CPU usage occurs in IRRMXPW0. APAR OA50748 was created to provide relief for the increased overhead. However, VTAM LOGON to IMS applications using different LUNAME/LTERMs and PASSTICKETs instead...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Allow customer deployed Linux in zCX address space

Allow customer deployed Linux in zCX address space
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Need STGADMIN.IGG Profiles for SMS Commands

We are trying to avoid granting ALTER access to our Catalog Datasets, specifically, the Master Catalog dataset profile. For any function that requires ALTER access to the Master Catalog or any catalog, please add a STGADMIN profile.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 4 Not under consideration

SMF logstream - implement size parm to force I SMF/IEFU29L

In SMF dataset mode, when a SYS1.MANx dataset is full, our SMF dump process can calculate how much space is needed for the dump dataset (by issuing a LISTC on the SYS1.MANx dataset). In SMF logstream mode, there is no easy way to programatically d...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance setfacl with the -R option

The setfacl command in z/OS seems to be missing the -R (recursive) option that is available on Linux. I don't know about Aix or Solaris or HPUX. But it seems reasonable that the recursive option should be available on the setfacl command. http://l...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Not under consideration

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