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z/OSMF Software Management Remote Deploy without Specification of Storage Class or Volume

When we use z/OSMF remote software deployment we have to specify storage classes for the source and target systems. We have a lot of target systems with a lot of storage classes and would like to let the ACS routines select the proper storage clas...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Delivered

ICSF: Determine when key was last used for encryption

We would like a way to determine when a key was last referenced for encryption.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Delivered

RCL service window reduction

In the near past, before we used RCL, the IBM SSR came on site and performed the MCL load in the datacenter. The service window was calculated on around 4hrs for one servers, both the HMCs and SEs were done in the same window. With RCL this is no ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Convert message IEF117I to be multi-line WTO for better management

Depending upon the number of devices and/or ESOTERIC names, thousands of disconnected, single line messages without meaningful/standard "message identifiers" can be produced during a hardware activation. Defining the line types required to produce...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 0 Delivered

Add message ID for BCPII connection status

We need system message issued if BCPII address space lost connection to any SE, and another message issued after connection re-established.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 1 Delivered

Message "EZD1314I TCP/IP AND EXTENDED SERVICES ARE NOW INITIALIZED FOR STACK" not living up to its expectations

EZD1314I is supposed to tell us that TCPIP is ready and waiting for work and that it's ok to start applications that depend on TCPIP to be fully active. We wait for EZD1314I to appear at IPL time and yet our TN3270 servers kick out error message "...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Delivered

Meaningful internal battery feature hardware message

Due to the conversion of the battery technology inside the Internal Battery Feature (IBF) of the IBM z15 systems to lithium-ion batteries and the associated risk of thermal runaway, an effective and quick alert is required in recognizable critical...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

add 64bit interface to iarqdump or equivalent

the documented interface iarqd aka. iarqdump allows one to skip un-instantiated pages in the 31bit region; i have a need to do the same for 64bit storage ranges; perhaps you could document it for use. many thanks
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 2 Delivered

CMS/zCMS & Pipe updates to support TLS

The IOCTL interface in TCP/IP supports client and server transition to and from TLS, but only from C and Assembler. Rexx and CMS Pipelines needs to be updated so those environments can use TLS encryption as well.
over 7 years ago in z/VM 2 Delivered

All color adjustment of status fields.

It can be extremely difficult to identify systems "not active" and "not operating" because they use the same icon (X) and color in the status column. In the "Classical view" it was easy to quickly identify different states of objects based on thei...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

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