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Handle POSIX thread termination properly in Batch Environments

A thread termination signal in a POSIX(ON) environment should be properly managed by involved resource managers.PI93384 implemented this partially for e.g. Db2, MQ triggering appropriate recovery routines. In an POSIX(ON) or Java Batch environment...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Delivered

z/OSMF - add IZU_WORKFLOWS_MAXIMUM parm to IZUPRMxx

Need to increase the number of workflows from 200 to 500. Currently, the only way to do this is to use the local_override.cfg script and specify parameter IZU_WORKFLOWS_MAXIMUM=xxx. But, use of the override file is not officially supported and the...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 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

zHMC Optic Power measurement

HMC 2.14.0 introduced a feature under the Channel Problem Determination panel called Optical Power measurement. Works for FICON only, Some clients are asking if this will be available for Inter Coupling Adapters , RoCE and zHiperlink ports as well.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

Auto LUN Scan

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

Direct LDAP support by DFSMShsm CLOUDUSER

DFSMShsm needs to have a cloud account defined to DS8000 to allow Transparent Cloud Tiering functionality. When the DS8000 machine is using a remote authentication policy, the mkuser command is disabled. Strict security policies in place disallow ...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Delivered

zOS CSSMTP AT-Sign Conversion

In zOS Communication Servers SMTPD Mail Gateway the hexadecimal representation of the AT Sign can be specified with parameter ATSIGN. The same function is needed for the CSSMTP Mail gateway. With the actual codepage conversion not only the mail te...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 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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