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Core Infrastructure

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DSFS to release enqueues in a timely manner

DSFS holds excl enqueues on datasets for minutes at a time.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

ISMF Last Date/Time Modified field updated incorrectly

Although SMS SCDS does not contain any Scratch Threshold values, the Last Date/Time Modified field is updated when changing a Scratch Threshold value. My customer claims that the Last Date/Time Modified field shouldn't be updated if the SMS SCDS i...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

ISPF View/Edit entry panel is giving a ?Request failed? error when browsing a relative generation that does not exist.

When entering the name of a relative generation of a GDG that has no entries (e.g. SYS3.TEST.PDS(0)) on the View or Edit Entry panel, it will result in error message "Request Failed". If help is selected, it will display pop-up message "ISRD024 Al...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 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

Low latency zIIP eligible work running on LPARs without VH, and IIPHONORPRIORITY=YES must receive timely help from GCPs

Customers with low latency zIIP eligible work cannot rely on IIPHONORPRIORITY=YES to timely get help from standard CPs without ensuring that they have at least 1 Vertical High (VH) zIIP
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 3 Not under 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...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Not under consideration

Add Support for Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) Header in z/OS

The Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) IPv6 Destination Options (DO) Header is defined in : http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ippm-6man-pdm-option/ (This draft has been adopted by the IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Working Group of ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide common APIs in support of PDSE Member Generations

We know member generations are useful but to access them requires a lot of work, especially from the open environment. By providing a set of common APIs current, i.e. REXX, and new, i.e.Perl, python, etc. will be able to easily work with member ge...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Not under consideration

Prevent recalling HSM migrated datasets when calling REST to get list of data sets on a system

REST API: List the z/OS data sets on a system recalling HSM migrated datasets and it does not support X-IBM-Migrated-Recall header to prevent this. This causes from time to time big delay and request often is timed out. In any case this behaviour ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Enhance visibility and validity of AT-TLS Certificate Chains

We would like to request the following enhancements to AT-TLS/System SSL/PAGENT with respect to certificate chain visibility and validation: 1) Provide a command to display the certificates that were selected/cached by ATTLS, to remove any doubt ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Not under consideration