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Core Infrastructure

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Ability to customise z/OSMF Software Management Deployments to add additional jobs

Currently the jobs generated to perform a deployment are fixed. We need to be able to customise 'Deployment' so we can add our own JCL at any stage of the deployment checklist. This is required so we can make z/OSMF deployment perform all the step...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

DS8886 (with 10.000 devices) failed, IOS0002I SQA COMPON=VSM,COMPID=SC1CH,ISSUER=IGVVSERR,OUT_OF_SQA and LPAR crashed

System:IOS Actor:need improved error recovery Description: DS8886 failed (because of Microcode Error).LPARs loose thousands of volumes (with multiple path).IOS recovery procedures need TO many common storage (below).Common Virtual storage constrai...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

DFSMSHSM LIST DATASET with Cloud Object Name

We are able to get a list of the Cloud Containers / Buckets, migrated data sets, and listing of the Contain objects using the following: LIST CLOUD(cloudname) LIST LEVEL(x) LIST CLOUD(cloudname) CONTAINER(containername) Using these lists, it is st...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

ECSA Storage Shortage Prevention

When the system is under ECSA/CSA stress have a new ENF signal raised to inform users that obtain ESCA storage and not give it back for performance reasons to give back that storage back and take a performance hit in order to prevent ESCA/CSA from...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 5 Not under consideration

RMF Postprocessor Cache Subsystem Activity report volser filter option

We would like to get a filter option for volsers for the section “Cache Device Activity / Cache Subsystem Device Overview” of the RMF Post Processor Cache Subsystem Activity report. It would be great if we could use generic specifications like "vo...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Record "V" DCOLLECT IDCAMS

The record type "V" of the DCOLLECT would contain the notion of "SPACE EFFICIENT". It could be much more easy for us to see if this volume is an SE or not.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Future consideration

Allow users to determine actual HSM function run times from CDSs

We are trying to process DFSMShsm MCDS and BCDS to retrieve actual run times of HSM functions (primary space management, secondary space management, automatic backups and automatic dumps). There are complete time and date fields for every function...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Stack affinity

When using z/OSMF to send diagnostic data we are not able to specify an IP-stack for the FTP send process.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF utilPathSelector should return volume and other information for data sets

When using the z/OSMF utilPathSelector to select data sets, the return type of results is a string array containing a list of selected data set names only. This differs from the behaviour when using it to select files in zFS, which returns an arra...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Display Line Number When CLISTs Terminate Due to an Error

Display the line number when a runtime CLIST error occurs. An example would be when a substr error occurs.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Future consideration

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