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BCP_XCF/XES

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Allow simplification with VARY XCF,target,OFFLINE with NOCONFIRM option to bypass IXC371D confirmation

Customer wants to ask IBM to consider enhacement with VARY XCF,target,OFFLINE command without the IXC371D confirmation by accepting the NOCONFIRM optional parm. Customer was tryin to take out an LPAR from the plex to simulate unexpected outage. Th...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 5 Not under consideration

PAVA0903-593 ARM policy TERMTYPE(SYSTERM)needed (Gerrit Bakker)

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: CN=Arlene Berchtold/OU=Poughkeepsie/O=IBMSubmitters Company: Workgroup Generated PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PAVA0903-593 ARM policy TERMTYPE(SYSTERM)needed (Gerrit Bakker)Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Cat...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 3 Future consideration

IXCMIAPU Should Be Updated to Return The Default Value of Each Structure Attriubte To The CFRM Policy Editor

The CFRM Policy Editor is intended to make it easier and more efficient to manage the CFRM policy. There are many Structure attributes that are assigned default values if the user does not assign a specific value. While those default values are sh...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Future consideration

Parm to remove report lines from IXCMIAPU

Please add a PARM to IXCMIAPU so that it does not issue line breaks, page counts and report headers ADMINISTRATIVE DATA UTILITY: REPORT DATA TYPE = CFRM 06/12/2019 17:30:16 PAGE 4 ___________________________________________________________________...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Round robin scheduling of SRBs to CF list connectors

z/OS will always process the list notifications on a given system in the same order. It steps through the queue of structures that have active connectors on the system, one at a time, looking for structures that have list notification users; and t...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

PDMD1202-508 XCF Buffer management

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: jes.jessenSubmitters Company: DMdata PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PDMD1202-508 XCF Buffer managementHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed Status: Session: Requirement...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Future consideration

Health check MSGBASED

On a GDPS Metro installation there is a GDPS health checker called GDPS_CHECK_XCF that cheks for the XCF CFRM MSGBASED protocol. It raises a high priority alert whenever the LPAR that does the MSGBASED role is a KP system. However when the situati...
9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

XCF CDS Maxsystem Definitation

Reducing the Max system count for the XCF CDS's you can add the new CDS to the system with out a full sysplex IPL.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Sysplex couple dataset has insufficient room for growth

Health check XCF_SYSPLEX_CDS_CAPACITY alerts with message IXCH0602E indicating one of the Sysplex couple dataset resources has hit the maximum threshold. Message IXCH0911I informs which kind of resource (XCF GROUPS, XCF GROUP MEMEBERS or SYSTEMS) ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

MONITORING CF LINKS

IBM defined a specific msg-ID IXL158I to identify CF Link with status NOT OPERATIONAL but we don't have msg-ID when the link is ONLINE-DEGRADED. Instead, link DEGRADED is provided as a result of the command /D CF,CFNM=CFXX but isn't the more effic...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

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