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Monitor the z/OS Language Environment Heap Usage

The usage/allocation of the LE Heap storage would affect the performance of the IBM CMOD product that is using it. In the reported case, when the LE Heap is not properly tuned, high CPU consumed by the CMOD address space is observed. Although the ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

ISPF Allocation (3.2) key label entry should provide an option to validate

The Key Label should be able to be validated prior to allocation. This can be via a selection list or just validating the key label. A selection list would be ideal given the length of the labels and thus the chance of a finger check (user 0FC) :D
about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Sorting file/directory names in ISPF UDLIST using case in sensitivity should be configured with a site wide default using ISPCCONF

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about 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Modify IODF-Activate TEST to check for Devices in Hiperswap Policy

Please change the IODF Activate TEST option. so that devices in Hyperswap State are shown as error-message and an Activate would fail.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

ZOSMF submitting jobs should also be controlled by surrogat class

The started task of z/OSMF can submit jobs without being checked on having a permit on a profile in the surrogat class.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Need SMFLIM to check for REGION=0M jobs (IEFUSI replacement)

Customer objective is to eliminate the use of IEFUSI and replace it's rules using SMFLIM. Currently they have coded in IEFUSI that all the JOBS should be changed to REGION=150MB, but those jobs that are coded with REGION=0M. These ones can use the...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Allow RLSE using standard ISPF options for dataset allocations

In the process of doing a PoC for zEDC, we were allocating datasets several different ways using different parameters. One of the things that we found out is that using several of the standard ISPF functions such as 3.3, when you allocate a datase...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

Enhance the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter tool to use FTP/S (TLS) instead of plain old FTP

I would like to see the file transfer functions of the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter tool enhanced to use FTPS (FTP with TLS). I had not tried using it until recently. I learned that it would use FTP to transfer generated jobs to our z/OS systems and d...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

HSM and "Common Recover Queue"(Support needed when doing Mass Recover of datasets backed up by Autobackup)

We have common recall queue. We have common recover queue(From HSM dumps), but we do miss the option of balancing the resources in case we need to do massive Dataset recover from Datasets backed up via AUTOBACKUP function in HSM. So I ask you to c...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Citi requests WJSIPUSE be a formally supported product

Citi has had experience with WJSIPUSE. They asked me if it, or an equivalent, can be formally supported by IBM. I am submitting the request on their behalf.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

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