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    DSFS Enhance Createparm

    The DSFS CreateParm is fine (to a point) but needs an option to Delete a created hlq.
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Take advantage of DAE to suppress dumps

    We encountered a situation where the zFS address space was taking 2C3 abends. The abend would sometimes occur more than once a day. DAE was not suppressing the dumps. Coding of the SDUMPX macro should be changed to take advantage of letting DAE su...
    over 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 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

    Allow zFS Salvager to Check ACLs while File System is Mounted

    There is an undocumented option of the salvager: CHECK_ACL_CONSISTENCY=ON to check and repair a file system with ACL problems.This feature should be documented and at least the check for problems should be possible for a mounted file system.
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

    zFS ACCESS Security

    We ask z/OS Security Server to be enhanced to permit zFS to be easily protected, like HFS current protection running for the early life of HFS on z/OS.
    almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Delay of zFS write with sync I/Os - z/OS 2.2

    Applications are experiencing huge delays when zFS is performing a write with SYNC against large files, the frequency of SYNCs are low, and there are many concurrent tasks trying to perform operations on the same file.
    almost 9 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Add mount option to perform ZFS file system integrity check at mount time

    When coming up for the first time in DR, we have a request from one of our teams to be able to run a file system integrity check to look for any ZFS corruption.
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under 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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