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Enhance the HZS0201I message to include the "active" Check parameters

The current output (the HZS0201I message) from the DISPLAY,CHECKS,DETAIL command displays the "DEFAULT PARAMETERS" and the "USER SUPPLIED PARAMETERS", but it does not display the list of parameters that are actually being used by the Check. One mi...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 0 Not under consideration

Create Health Check for Hardware Messages

We would like to have a health check for hardware messages on HMC. For example, when an RSF service call fails for some reason, it will be reported on HMC but we would like to see an exception on health check panel to. In our installation the HMCs...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

DEFINE PAGESPACE Resilliancy to ensure page space clusters are formatted completely

This resilliency item would need to be implemented under IDCAMS, Catalog, and RSM. An IDCAMS DEFINE PAGESPACE command is a unique operation that involves a DEFINE CLUSTER and Format under the covers in order to produce a useable Pagespace for RSM ...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

UNIT=AFF as default for all concatenated allocations

Because there is no way to limit the number of tape drives a batch job can request concurrently, it would be very helpful if UNIT=AFF were the default for ALL concatenated allocations.Today, when tape storage is tapeless, it makes no sense to moun...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 4 Not under consideration

Increase CP areas to maximum supported size on VM installs

Historically, VM delivered a modest average size for most CP areas like ckpt, warmstart, and directory. Now that disk is no longer really constrained on most systems and VM management skills are increasingly rare, increasing the reserved areas to ...
about 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

Optionnaly hide LPAR performance data despite HiperDispatch

Despite that HiperDispatch requests that the LPAR option named 'performance data control' be activated, we would like to have the possibility to manage the accesses to these performance data based on the same security rules as they exist in the BC...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Not under consideration

Add a volume parameter to Some MODIFY CATALOG Commands

Sysplex-wide commands like MODIFY CATALOG,RECOVER require a catalog name to be specified, but these commands do not support a volume parameter. This does not allow for catalogs of the same name that reside on different volumes, so the wrong catalo...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance visibility and validity of AT-TLS Certificate Chains

We would like to request the following enhancements to AT-TLS/System SSL/PAGENT with respect to certificate chain visibility and validation: 1) Provide a command to display the certificates that were selected/cached by ATTLS, to remove any doubt ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SSL 1 Not under consideration

Supply z/ERT code as open-source

z/ert is only available for SMF 119 subtype 12.I would like to use the idea of z/ERT to check the other SMF 119 records. Use a z/ERT like program to retrieve certain connection information ex. Subtype 3 or Subtype 22 If the source code would be pr...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Send TCP/IP reply traffic over the same interface

Provide a way to force the TCP/IP Stack to send reply traffic over the same interface that the request came in on.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration