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Enhance TIOT Exceeded Message IEF240I

Enhance IEF240I or create a new message that would inform the user that the TIOT limitations are exceeded. Currently there is a maximum fixed size for the TIOT defined in the ALLOCxx member of parmlib of 64K. not all shops run with this size. So i...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 3 Not under consideration

Be able to enforce use of FCTOPPRCPRIMARY(PRESMIRREQ) when FASTREPLICATION(PREF) or FASTREPLICATION(REQ) is specified

In a GDPS Metro Mirror environment, use of FASTREPLICATION can lead to devices going into duplex pending state, causing the system to be unable to perform a hyperswap. When FASTREPLICATION(REQ) or FASTREPLICATION(PREF) is in place (either specifie...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

make it possible to adapt/customize the motd (Message of the day)

Customers require sometimes that the use of zCX adheres to customer policies & rules. They want to communicate this via motd.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Incorporate the REXX Compiler into z/OS

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 08/23/2022 Submitter Name: Lionel B Dyck (Senior Software Engineer) Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: REXX is being shipped with more products on z/OS including system automation and sys...
over 2 years ago in z/OS 0 Not under consideration

WLM Policy Update in Batch

Currently with GDPS and 4-Site technology, we have 2 complete sets of Sysplex CDS datasets for our out of region testing. We currently after testing, run jobs to re-init/re-write datasets/policies for XCF, CFRM, SFM, ARM CDS datasets, but there is...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Future consideration

Make workflow variable exportable to reuse them as input file

At the moment, the only possibility to save the variables of a workflow is to write a script, which writes them into a file by executing the echo command for every variable. This is not handy at all if you have a lot of variables. It would be grea...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Inttermitten GRE packet processing delay on the target system cause unnecessary TCP retransmission

We are using VIPAROUTE and QDIO Accelerator for efficient delivery of distribute Sysplex Distributor traffic to the targets.There are a lot of unnecessary TCP retransmissions caused by intermittent GRE packet processing delay on the target system....
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

RMF DDS support for SYSRTD

Bank of America and CDPz team request to retrieve the SYSRTD report from RMF DDS.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Default Jobcard

Allow customer to supply default jobcard within z/OSMF.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add PIPSYSF functionality, except for "pattern", to base Pipelines

Add the egrep/fgrep/ggrep, xeditdel, xeditinp, and xeditrep stages from the PIPSYSF function package the the base CMS Pipelines package. The pattern stage in PIPSYSF is not needed at this time.
over 3 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

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