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    Better recovery from VTS and z/OS out of sync volume mount status

    We have had numerous instances where z/OS and the VTS get 'out of sync' in regards to the mount status on a single VTS logical drive. We have had several instances of this situation with the most recent case documented in PMR 34469,122,000. In thi...
    over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 3 Future consideration

    We would like job specific tape mount information to review elongated tape mounts

    We have BVIR records where elongated tapes mounts have been identified but we need to identify which jobs were impacted. This information would be ideal to have stored in any of the job based SMF records (21s/30s/14s/15s). This information would b...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

    Tape temp dataset change request

    The management class ACS routine is not driven for tape temp datasets, therefore the MC is not being passed to the TS7700 and uses the default.MC.
    over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

    Single IODF Activate to move a cluster from one Composite to another in the same Plex

    When moving an IBM tape cluster from one tape grid to another in the same plex, have found that with a one IODF Activate that a cluster will be defined to two composite (2 grids). The cluster will not come online to the new composite. To avoid thi...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

    Having DAA and SAA be aware of read-only clusters.

    Customer's environment: 4_way HYDRA GRID.Customer has multiple composite libraries tied to the same storage group. So, SMS does balanced distribution of write tape I/O between those composite librarys into the same SMS storage group. The point her...
    about 11 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

    z/os to be able to change tape cat code

    hello, our z/VM team currently performs this task for us. via something called DFSMSRM, this includes a better Q LIB VOL command as well as set volcat volume by chance can z/OS have similar capabilities?
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Not under consideration

    Improvement on FFDC for z/OS & VTS mount state discrepencies

    We have had many instances over the years of mismatches between the VTS device mount state in the VTS and z/OS. The latest of these was being pursued through PMR 15331,122,000. In almost all of these instances we get some notification through a z/...
    almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

    Enhance the pptapetofile process to support tapes created with a BLKSIZE – 128

    On TPF tapes can be written to with a block size of 128. At Visa, the TPF systems utilize this setting for the RTV, RTXRTY, and RTW logging tapes. This setting was put in place to reduce tape queueing and improve performance for TPF. By allowing t...
    over 3 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 0 Planned for future release

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