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SMF92 record remount in correct mode

The product only writes out the remount SMF record during the unmount portion and does not write another record after it is mounted again. This means that the mode in the record does not necessarily reflect the correct mode in effect after the rem...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Improvements to the ability to ascertain whether zFS filesystems are in migration

There is currently no way to check whether filesystems are in mirroring complete status but waiting for a swap operation to complete other than using the bpxwmigf command. I'd also like a new reason code issued when the user attempts to manually m...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

USS command bpxwmigf need to force a swap

I am using bpxwmigf uss command to help to migrate from HFS to ZFS, and also from a ZFS to another (extended) ZFS. It is very useful and reliable. But sometimes it fails to swap to the new ZFS due to message : status.......: swap deferred at 08:31...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Planned for future release

Ignore invalid entries in the AUTOMOUNT policy and activate the policy with valid entries.

We've had a directory in our automount policy that did not actually exist for some time and it has not had any ill effects from IPL to IPL of lpars in the sysplex. This past weekend we had a sysplex outage and the unallocated directory prevented t...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

OMVS Shell Logging to SYSLOGD

IBM should provide the ability to log messages to the active OMVS/USS syslogd. Currently logger, which is standard in UNIX for writing messages to syslogd, does not have this ability in z/OS but writes messages to the z/OS SYSLOG without an option...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

CHECK(IBMUSS,USS_PARMLIB_MOUNTS) make MTAB updatable.

IBM Healthchecks are very good to follow, to avoid an outage. We use them a lot! But if a mount statement of a ZFS data set is wrongly defined in BPXPRMxx. The Healthcheck (IBMUSS,USS_PARMLIB_MOUNTS) complains with an exception. "ZFS NOT MOUNTED. ...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

MMAP function under z/OS USS should be able to use 64bit address space.

We have a proof of concept to run an off-the-shelf name indexer product under z/OS USS. This product is a native 64-bit Java 8 application that uses the Lucene indexer. The product functions under USS for small indexes. However, the call to mmap i...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

USS panel BPXWP20 "Work with Mounted File Systems" does not show the mount hierarchies.

It would be nice to see the hierarchy of mount points on the BPXWP20. An intuitive/topological presentation of file systems would be very helpful. The practical purpose would be unmounting an FS that has child mount points to other FS'es. For exam...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

BPXN004I msg should be "E"

BPXN004I error condition is much more than an information msg and this condition can cause sysplex wide uss issues
over 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Z/OS Unix OCOPY

Update OCOPY to correct abend S213-15 (IEC143I) if DSNTYPE=LARGE and SMS BLOCKTOKENSIZE is REQUIREd.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / USS 4 Future consideration

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