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    WLM Policy Update in Batch

    Currently with GDPS and 4-Site technology, we have 2 complete sets of Sysplex CDS datasets for our out of region testing. We currently after testing, run jobs to re-init/re-write datasets/policies for XCF, CFRM, SFM, ARM CDS datasets, but there is...
    over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Future consideration

    WLM performance index evaluation period should be reduced to 5 seconds or less

    We have critical transactions that all of them should be ended in any case within 3 seconds. Even theses transaction have been properly defined to WLM, during high CPU utilization intervals, some of these transactions run for more than 5 seconds c...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

    Ansible automation for OpenShift deployment on Linuxone with z/VM hypervisor

    Ansible Playbooks to automate a User-Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) with z/VM hypervisor. This process, when done manually, is extremely tedious, time-consuming, and requires high levels...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

    Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    Change criteria for triggering IRA130E and SYSI_RESOURCE_CONTRAINED

    z/OS Workload Manager (WLM): Message IRA130E and SYSI_RESOURCE_CONTRAINED flag can be triggered when there is still a large amount of HVCOMMON available. The amount of HVCOMMON should be taken into consideration. For example, the condition could b...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Future consideration

    s390x based oc-mirror plugin for linuxONE OpenShift clusters to mirror Operator HUB file based catalog in Air gapped environment.

    oc-mirror plugin can fine-tune the configuration to only include the OpenShift Container Platform releases and Operators that cluster needs which reduces the amount of data needed to download and transfer. Currently s390x based oc-mirror plugin is...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    ECSA Storage Shortage Prevention

    When the system is under ECSA/CSA stress have a new ENF signal raised to inform users that obtain ESCA storage and not give it back for performance reasons to give back that storage back and take a performance hit in order to prevent ESCA/CSA from...
    almost 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 5 Not under consideration

    Define shorter interval cycle for resource adjust in WLM policy

    As shown in web site (WLM FAQ) and technical documents about z/OS, we understand that the interval of resource adjust in WLM policy is solid in each 10 seconds. This cycle is seems to be so long for the modernization of online transactions under C...
    almost 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Not under consideration

    LPAR Image Capacity Calculation

    When we have set a value for Defined Capacity of 600, the Image Capacity shows me 600 as well. That's reasonable and is comprehensible. As we do not work with Defined Capacity anymore the Image Capacity Value changed. I have Defined Capacity of 0,...
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

    When an enclave is quiesced from the ENC panel, document in the syslog what tasks and parent tasks are quiesced.

    Today, if you quiesce an enclave, there is no auditing information injected into the syslog as to the tasks being quiesced. More importantly, it's parent task is not documented in the syslog.
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

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