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Structure-level control of CF CPU utilization

As discussed in PMR, we had a high consumption problem of a WMQ structure in a CF impacting other users of the CF. Consumption CF reached 90%, and the consumption of structure in question has reached 80% of CF.We need a way to control the use of t...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP through dataset Alias

During a DFSMSdss DUMP operation the catalog search may find a match for a dataset alias, but it will not resolve to the related physical dataset and include that in the DUMP, it just reports ADR383W (001)-DTDSC(01), DATA SET A.B.C.ALIAS NOT SELEC...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

IXCMIAPU Should Be Updated to Return The Default Value of Each Structure Attriubte To The CFRM Policy Editor

The CFRM Policy Editor is intended to make it easier and more efficient to manage the CFRM policy. There are many Structure attributes that are assigned default values if the user does not assign a specific value. While those default values are sh...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Future consideration

CFRM Policy Editor Should Make It Easier to Manage PREFLISTs With More Than 2 CFs

The CFRM Policy Editor currently allows you to add a CF to a PREFLIST at the start, or the end, or in a random position. However, configurations with more than 2 CFs require an easier way to add CFs in any relative position in the PREFLIST.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Command to display zCX memory SWAP, DATA and ROOT space usage

There is no command to display how much memory the zCX started task is using, or how much space is being used of the ROOT dataset; determining usage of SWAP and DATA is also difficult.This is separate from the within-docker commands to display ind...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Create Alias for all datasets when installing new z/OS

Hi Last time I installed z/OS 2.5 all datasets was defined with an Alias but not this time with install of z/OS 3.1. the answer I got from case TS014843200 was: Its working as designed. Data sets which can be referenced using the volume, like PDSe...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

UCD agent on z/VM

Would it be possible to have a UCD agent running on z/VM.We do have Workflow from our UCD server to deploy/run jobs on UCD agents on z/OS.We have a requirement to run cp commands or rexx on z/VM.
over 4 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Native REST API for Administration and Reporting against RACF Databases

A native REST API for administration and reporting against RACF would be extremely helpful for automation and product flexibility. Example functions would be CRUD against user ID's/OMVS segments, CRUD for dataset/resource rules, and modifying grou...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Allow Site and Vendor whatis files

With the growth in the use of the z/OS Unix (OMVS) environment there are more non-IBM additions to the set of available commands. The majority of these additional commands come from outside IBM. Many of these commands (one would hope all) have man...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Future consideration