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Provide a DISPLAY PROCLIB command similar to D PARMLIB

Please provide DISPLAY PROCLIB|STCJOBS command similar to the DISPLAY PARMLIB command.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Future consideration

XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF ACTIVATION involving thousands of HW changes

XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF activation On an z/OS image that did NOT issue the HW ACTIVATE-Customer observed that CPU usage for all MASTER address spaces was more than 10 CPs for the RMF Mon 3 interval just before the IOS502I message. Add...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Planned for future release

Delete elements like channel , control-unit , unit in IODF with HCD batch

With PGM=CBDMGHCP,PARM='MIGR,........' we can add or update elements but not to delete elements. It would be fine to be able to delete elements in batch before to do MIGRATE in batch. We have messages : CBDA563I SPACE EXHAUSTED IN WORK IODF NSYSTK...
4 months ago in z/OS / HCD 4 Future consideration

update IEF033I message to include ZIIP usage time

Hello IBM, can I please for a change to message IEF033I as follows to allow the ZIIP time to be shown. This would be a small however important improvement scanning out batch jobs for ZIIP consumption. IEF033I JOB/QR2DAP49/STOP 2024008.0622 CPU: 1 ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Workflows. Straight the skew of archived workflows

The way of working with archived workflows should be refactored. If a user archives a workflows it is dependent on that user if it will be cleaned up or stays there forever. If the underlaying zFS runs full it is very hard for a system administrat...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Increase / disable the size limit of 100 MB for uploading files from our workstation.

Some vendors don´t have the option to sFTP files direct from their servers to mainframe environment. SMEs needs to download required data (from vendor web site) in their workstation and upload it using WINscp or any other vendor tool (license cost...
10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Better support for multiple master catalogs in a sysplex

There are a growing number of system data sets which have sysplex scope, but which are VSAM. When z/OS sysplexes are configured with a single master catalog shared across all sysplex LPARs this does not present any issue. However, such a sysplex i...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

In the LSPACE macro given the option switch off SVCDUMPs for VTOC errors

Change LSPACE to allow the option to suppress SVCDUMPs for VTOC errors
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 3 Future consideration

IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR should be of type Error

In my opinion the message IFA849I ENVIRONMENT ERROR ... should be of type error. A job should end with RC 8 and not 4, because it is an error and not an information the utility IFASMFDL gives. So please change it to IFA849E and change the behavior...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Add include option to DSFS

There is only one valid value for HLQ_MODE and that is EXCLUDE. To enable controlled use of DSFS in production, HLQ_MODE=EXCLUDE is insufficient. What sense does the parameter make if there is only one permissible value, namely EXCLUDE? How would ...
6 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration