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z/VM enhancement requested for z/OS GUESTS exploiting HYPERPAV

Extending the z/VM MSS (Multiple Subchannel Set) management to allow z/VM and its guests exploiting HyperPAV (e.g z/OS).REQUIRED for customers who are close to the 64K limit of UCB in SS0 of LCSS. More details in the attachement.
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Add SSI 82 functions to return current values of items in DEF parms

We recently dropped all direct control block access (using an offset table) in a product, switching to SSI 82 ("the supported way"). This created an issue with one customer, who was depending on the value we returned for the spool volume prefix. I...
9 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

SMP/E Commands with CHECK should have their own RACF Resource

SMP/E utilizes the RACF profiles for the various commands such as APPLY, ACCEPT, RESTORE. These commands provide a CHECK option which does NOT update any libraries but simply checks to see if everything is correct to proceed with the actual updati...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Graphic interface for backup/restore USS files with DFSMShsm or "-pick" option similar to TSM-client

Additionally to the commando interface for backup/restore of USS-files with DFSMShsm it would be very useful for endusers, who use only ssh-connect to USS on z/OS, to have any kind of graphish interface to backup/restore of USS-files similar to TS...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

$HASP1551 LIST Messaging for HTTP_NOTIFY

When JOBDEF is coded with HTTP_NOTIFY=DISABLED and a z/OSMF request specifies X-IBM-Notification-URL, JES2 issues message $HASP1551 even though notification will not be possible. $HASP1551 LIST -- Send HTTP notification when job is READY $HASP1551...
2 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Files API - Fully Support Migrated / Archived z/OS Data Sets

z/OSMF appears to detect migrated / archived z/OS data sets by the pseudo VOLSER name of `MIGRAT`. However, ISV products, like CADISK, may be configured to archive data sets on a VOLSER of 'ARCIVE`. z/OSMF should detect ARCIVE data sets as being m...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 4 Future consideration

Setting shorter timeouts (e.g. 10th of seconds) in z/OS® client web enablement toolkit

The z/OS® client web enablement toolkit provides a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable traditional, native z/OS programs to participate in modern web services applications. In z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit you can use t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

TCPIP Sysplex Ditributor SERVERWLM low weights management

We have a large database ( 6 DB2 members, more than 10000 DB2 transactions per second) where DDF TCP traffic is balanced with VIPA SERVERWLM algorithm. In normal condition WLM weights are high enough to spread new sockets in a balanced way. When t...
11 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

How to print the $HASP138 SPIN message written to CEEMSG to SYSLOG or JESMSGLG?

We split the CEEMSG DD of CICS with the following line:// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (UNALLOC, 10M)==> ceemsg output:08.38.16 S0310063 İHASP138 CEEMSG SPIN HAS OCCURRED BECAUSE OF LINE COUNT or we use "time":// CEEMSG DD SYSOUT = *, SPIN = (U...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Display logging options in use for z/OSMF

With the 'F zosmfserver, D IZU' command only the logging options are displayed which z/OSMF has read from PARMLIB\ at startup.We need a way to display what logging options are effectively in actual use.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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