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Core Infrastructure

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Enhance message IFA016I with the root cause

There are numerous reasons a SMF dump program IFASMFDP USER exit might not be available, but the IFA016I message is a catch-all / generic message that does not provide any useful information (outside of an abend issue) which the user can use to di...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

BUFNO calculation for Extended format sequential datasets

BUFNO are calculated according to the following formula: n—Extended format but not compressed format and not LBI (n = 2 × blocks per track × number of stripes)1—Compressed format data set, PDSE, SYSIN, SYSOUT, SUBSYS, UNIX files2—Block size > =...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Future consideration

Use SAVE on LPAR View Attached Devices panel

After selecting an LPAR using the View Attached Devices (u) option it would great if the SAVE command could be used on the subsequent "View Partition / Devices" panel to allow the list to be saved to output dataset. The SAVE command is not availab...
8 months ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

Customization of required jobs for DB2 RSU maintenances based on hold action

This will be useful for those who does quarterly RSU maintenances for DB2 for z/OS. Once the holdaction is ready, there should be a mechanism which can create the required jobs and customize based on the hold action. This can seek the required fie...
3 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

HSM detaches lower level data mover tasks and produces hundreths of BPXP018I THREAD tttttt, IN PROCESS ppppp ENDED WITHOUT BEING UNDUBBED WITH COMPLETION CODE 0033E000 AND REASON CODE 00000000

During file backup we get hundreths of BPXP018I with COMPLETION CODE 0033E000. When this is the way how HSM works it would be great to change it and avoid all this messages as the backup function in HSM ends correctly. Putting the BPX018I into MPF...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Consistent Read from Secondary - decision making in response to poor performance/hardware health changes

Our current understanding is that to exploit the DS8K's consistent read from secondary function, IOS currently sends some queries out at Hyperswap enable time in order to determine at the LCU boundary whether reads should be directed to the PPRC p...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

[zOSMF] Setting the threshold in Resource Monitor

I want to threshold monitoring using the resource monitor.In the current function, difficult to understand confirming whether or not the value is appropriate. When I did the demonstration of resource monitor for customers, we got opinions, such as...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RMF 3 Future consideration

BPXF029E return codes for failed ROOT mount when ZFS is not initialized

Recently, we were supposed to remove/comment the FILESYSTYPE TYPE(HFS) statement in our BPXPRMxx, but instead we made the following mistake: FILESYSTYPE TYPE(ZFS) /* Filesystem type ZFS */ ENTRYPOINT(GFUAINIT) /* Entrypoint for defining ZFS */ /* ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Man page for zfsadm - enhance

The zfsadm man page is a good start but needs to be enhanced thus: 1. Enable 'man -k .' to find information within it2. Expand to support the various zfsadm sub-commands (e.g. config) - suggest following the example of the ssh man pages which have...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Documentation 5 Future consideration

Clean up the DSFS dsadm query reporting

In the DSFS product the dsadm query has a number of reports. The issue is that the heading format is inconsistent. examples: compression has no header metacache has a header but no dashed line below it some have no space before the header so if mu...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

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