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RMM should surface reason volumes are not returned to scratch

Technote Reference #: S1000836 currently documents the process one needs to go through when attempting to determine why a particular logical volume was not returned to scratch during the last housekeeping run. Just going through those steps for a ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Delivered

CSSMTP € character in SUBJECT

Our customer(s) requirements to have € character supported in Subject can't be solved converting all needed eMail to execute CUNMRCSM like functions.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Prompt user if they try to start a second z/OSMF Workflow instance from the same Workflow Definition

Some z/OSMF processes might not be suited to having multiple instances running in parallel. However, because there is currently no way to know from a Workflow instance which Workflow Definition it was created from, it is possible to start a second...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

Auto LUN Scan

No description provided
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Delivered

HSM Should have a valid backup before performing migration for Extent Reduction

We have HSM set to not allow migration without a valid backup. We also have maxextents set to 5 for extent reduction. There are times that HSM migrates a dataset out for extent reduction and is unable to bring the dataset back - often due to lack ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Delivered

Console MVS command to issue PING

When need a compatible command to issue a PING to a network resource and it can be done on the tso option 6. We need to have it able to do on the MVS Console. We had problem where tso was down and needed to ping a network resource from the mvs lpa...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Delivered

Show template version number on Software Services Instances panel

Currently the template name is displayed on the Software Services Instances panel, but since we do have several versions of the same template we're missing the template version in this display. Showing the template version, we can quickly have an ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

Remote console access KVM

Emergency console access for "users" so KVM host console access does not need to be given
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

Hipersockets

Customer especially Linux on z (not LinuxONE) customer has z/OS workload and hipersocket is recommended to connect between Linux and z/OS workload to gain better performance.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

cinder node HA - automation

Currently to manually migrate cinder node to another compute node (if need do maintenance work etc). Need automated solution.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 3 Delivered

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