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Enhance CIU display and procedure for permanent upgrades.

Using ResourceLink, CIU to order a permanent upgrade to an 8561 was successful and the record download ready. From the HMC, we performed model conversion, permanent upgrades with the retrieve processor upgrade data but do not apply successfully. D...
8 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Delivered

Creating and Deleting Profiles on HMC/SE via BCPII

We have been using BCPII for quite a while to automate the control of the "defined capacity" in our z/OS Images. This was an important milestone for us because the defined capacity values can change very frequently based upon our clients requests....
over 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Delivered

zOSMF view or change tenant associations for template

Once you've completed the Add Template and Resource Pool for Tenant panels and specified which resources are associated, there is no obvious way to review or even change these definitions.For example, how can one know if the 'Allow resources to be...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

LDAP Group Support for System z HMC

The System z HMC currently does not support LDAP Groups. We are unable to utilize the alternate method using templates as we are unable to update the LDAP schema for our users. We are requesting the capability for defining LDAP Groups on the Syste...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

CSDATA: ACEE and CICS

We would like to be able to choose if we want to access or not RACF Custom Fields from CICS. Via a parameter, for example in the SIT we could be able to decide if, automatically the CF should be brought into storage and anchored from the ACEE. Thi...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 6 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...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 0 Delivered

omvs shell ipcs command does not include date, only time

While diagnosing a problem, the shell ipcs command was used. The output for the ipcs command displays time-information, however, it does *not* include date-information. So, there is no way to know if a 24- or 48- hour window has passed between CTI...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 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.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_BCPii 1 Delivered

Allow IWQ for appropriate bulk traffic

I am requesting that zOS CommServer and OSA development modify the existing IWQ checks to allow more traffic to be handled by IWQ. We see a lot of duplicate acknowledgements because the TCPIP stack is receiving incoming packets out of order. This ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Add member information to Jobclass panel on SDSF

JC panel on SDSF is lacking the member information (available with D action char). The 82 SSI provide this data at the member level: Active? PXEQ? max, current, ... New columns or JC MEMBERS should show the detailed data in a tabular form.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Delivered

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