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We need enhancement to CPM(Capacity Provision manager) product to overcome limitations so it can be a fully usable product

We need enhancement to CPM(Capacity Provision manager) product to overcome limitations so it can be a fully usable product >CPM is unable to change the HMC values for weight and logical engines and we need this to be possible by the product >...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 5 Future consideration

IBM SCL needs more content for kc4z, eg.: DB2, MQ, WAS, etc.

I used kc4z since there was no pulldown for IBM Softcopy Librarian. We need more content available from SCL in kc4z format. I'm trying to get off of BookManager and replace it with kc4z, but I'm between a rock and a hardplace. Apparently, z/OS 2.2...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Knowledge Center 2 Future consideration

Make DFDSS handle any type of dump file

DFDSS (ADRDSSU) writes variable-length records to a RECFM=U dataset. First, it would be good if it also supported RECFM=V for output, as that is a natural match for variable-length records. Regardless, if that RECFM=U file is ftp'ed to the PC and ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Future consideration

CMSSTOR macro support relative addressing instructions

Change the inline re-entrant expansion form of the CMSSTOR macro to use relative addressing, thereby eliminating the need for a base register in the CSECT. The sequence of CNOP 0,4 / LA R1,*+8 (Plist address) / BC 15,Around_Plist / (inline_plist) ...
over 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Allow customer deployed Linux in zCX address space

Allow customer deployed Linux in zCX address space
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

In ISPF, requesting a change to allow more than one one control data set for each logical screen to avoid ISRS083 error.

Under certain conditions, an ISPF Allocation Error ISRS083 will occur when stacking commands. Details on how to recreate the error using ISPF SRCHFOR are documented in the attached file. It appears the failure is occurring on the SPFTEMPn.CNTL dat...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

Create ISPF Statistics when adding a member via IEBUPDTE

Can a parameter be added to the ADD statement of the IEBUPDTE utility to optionally create ISPF statistics when a new member is added to a PDS? We realize that the statistics are created when/if the new member is edited, but that may or may not ev...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF Incident Log Dump Title

Need the Incident Log to contain more information around dump and failing components.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OS Web Enablement - JSON Parser GNUV Fails on COBOL COMP-2 Floating Point Numbers

COBOL is not currently able to use the HWTJGNUV callable service for JSON numbers that are not integers..therefore...this is a Request for Enhancement (RFE) against the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit to be able to handle floating point numbers...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

DFSMSdss restore multivolume dataset from physical dumps

It would be fine when we need to restore multivolume dataset from physical dumps with DFSMSdss if we would have to provide only all physical dumps of all volumes which contain pièces of dataset and DFSMSdss would do job .DFSMSdss would find pieces...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

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