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Add a volume parameter to Some MODIFY CATALOG Commands

Sysplex-wide commands like MODIFY CATALOG,RECOVER require a catalog name to be specified, but these commands do not support a volume parameter. This does not allow for catalogs of the same name that reside on different volumes, so the wrong catalo...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

IDCAMS PRINT to allow for codepage input

The output of an IDCAMS PRINT job includes both the raw data in printed hexadecimal and also in a "translated" section that displays capital English and special characters from the EBCDIC code page. There are many international situations where al...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

Instruction-execution-protection support should be provided for CPOOLs and IARCP64 and IARST64.

For the same reasons support is available in IARV64 and STORAGE OBTAIN/RELEASE: System integrity
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 0 Future consideration

Software management: Serverpac, et al. Configure Deployment should allow for BOTH a target volume, and Target Storage class, and add provision to code Dataclass

At my installation, we have SMS ACS routines for directing new OMVS datasets to certain StorClass/StorGroup, mainly for the automated allocation of user home ZFS containers.. This doesnt work for SYSRES contained OMVS datasets, so I must code STOR...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

modify preflist for multiple structures at one time

Sometimes we want to change some structures preflist in batch. If we can add this function into "Modify Multiple CF Structures" panel of zOSMF Sysplex Plugin, it will be great. Thanks!
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enhance REXX MVSVAR to return more system-related data

All Enhancements related to Enterprise PLI GETSYSWORD/GETJCLSYMBOL should be also available in Rexx using MVSVAR function or equivalent. MVSVAR('STEPNAME') Stepname of active TaskMVSVAR('PROCSTEP') Procstepname if any MVSVAR('SMFID') SMF ID of Sys...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 6 Future consideration

Capacity Provisioning Manager Record Report Does Not show MSU Cost for Upgrades

When using the CPOSERV OOCUOD Record Report, CPM does not provide any indication whether an engine is banked. This report needs to display the MSU cost for each incremental upgrade where in the case of using OOCUOD to activate a banked engine, the...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

New LE callable service to extract active run time options

LE should create a callable service which an application could call to extract the active run time options. This would allow applications to build their own command their customers could invoke to display what is being used.
5 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Holder can't be FORCED when their is SYSIEFSD ENQ contention

When the QEDIT assembler service is invoked to free a CIB, an exclusive ENQ on SYSIEFSD Q10 is obtained to serialize the CSCB chain. While holding the ENQ, a SPOST is issued to ensure that all in progress POSTS to the address space have completed ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Future consideration

Structure-level control of CF CPU utilization

As discussed in PMR, we had a high consumption problem of a WMQ structure in a CF impacting other users of the CF. Consumption CF reached 90%, and the consumption of structure in question has reached 80% of CF.We need a way to control the use of t...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

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