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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...
9 months ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

Move ICSF cell pools above the bar

If a high enough burst of ATTLS requests comes in at once, ICSF cell pools can grow rapidly enough and fill CSF private storage. This results in ABEND878s and TCPIP leaving the sysplex group. At this point, an IPL is likely desired. Moving these c...
12 months ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Is IBM health check VSAMRLS_TVS_ENABLED still required under zOS v3.1 ?

Now that DFSMStvs is included in the base install of zOS v3.1, health check VSAMRLS_TVS_ENABLED excepts as it now finds the product installed but not enabled. I suspect the majority of zOS customers do not enable this now free product? so would ha...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 2 Under review

LE AMODE 31/64 interoperability environment: use of ILC in parallel threads in Java

We want to be able to use the Java batch framework for parallel processing on z/OS in the same way as on other operating systems.We need to execute the batch on z/OS when we have to call COBOL modules for business functionality. The opportunity to...
3 months ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Add default symbols to system symbols

In IEASYMxx processing, HWNAME, LPARNAME and VMUSERID are available for filtering but they are not available as built-in system symbols. Please make these available for use as symbols within IEASYMxx processing, e.g. &LPARNAME(2:1) and as syst...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software install existing SMPWKDIR directory/file system.

Provide an ability to specify and use an existing SMPWKDIR directory/file system.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 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

Add a possibility to limit the number of parallel tasks to prevent S878 ABENDing HSM STC

During recover of over 1000 datasets we increased the maximum recover tasks step by step to 12. Once we reached 12 HSM STC itself ABENDed because of a S878 because of a storage constraint below the line. This is documented as works-as-designed: ht...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future 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.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

Force HSM to reconnect active request to DS8k HMC

Using TCT HSM sends migrate/ recall requests to the DS8k HMC using IP. In case there is a problem with this HMC, it's possible to reconfigure SMS with an alternate HMC, but the active tasks are still connected to the 'failed' HMC and never end. Fa...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

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