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Provide ability to dynamically increase JES2 initiators

Increasing the number of JES2 initiators requires a change to INITDEF PARTNUM, and then a JES2 warmstart. This is extremely disruptive and creates an outage. JES2 should provide a means to dynamically increase PARTNUM without requiring a JES2 warm...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

z/OS Web Enablement - JSON Parser GNUV Fails on COBOL COMP-2 Floating Point Numbers

COBOL is not currently able to use the HWTJGNUV callable service for JSON numbers that are not integers..therefore...this is a Request for Enhancement (RFE) against the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit to be able to handle floating point numbers...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

PAVA0903-593 ARM policy TERMTYPE(SYSTERM)needed (Gerrit Bakker)

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: CN=Arlene Berchtold/OU=Poughkeepsie/O=IBMSubmitters Company: Workgroup Generated PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PAVA0903-593 ARM policy TERMTYPE(SYSTERM)needed (Gerrit Bakker)Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Cat...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 3 Future consideration

DFSMSdss RESTORE should not be checking for any source devices when IMPORT is specified

The DFSMSdss RESTORE command should not perform any checks for the source volumes when the IMPORT parameter is specified.
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Allow HSM automatic dump to DASD

HSM automatic dump currently only allows writing the full-volume dumps to tape. It should also support writing full-volume dumps to disk.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Report on 1M vs 4K paging

Please consider separating reporting for 4K vs. 1M page frames. Today, the paging rates are expressed as 4K page equivalents, so when a 1M page comes in, that counts as 256. This distinction probably makes relatively little difference on the overa...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

RFE for DS QLIB distlib DELETE

When moving an IBM tape cluster from one tape grid to another in the same plex, have found that with a one IODF Activate that a cluster will be defined to two composite (2 grids). By expanding the current DS QLIB,composite,DELETE to expand to usin...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

Need to remove 16Mb limitation for REXX variable.

We need to manage data by rds tables in System Automation for z/OS. In particular We need to read and processes by batch jobs, the data stored in the rds tables that are into system automation.But there is a limit around 16Mb. This number, 16Mb, i...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Port the tree command to Unix System Services

Either port the tree command or create an equivalent command for Unix System Services
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

DFSMSdss RESTORE should not be checking for any source devices when IMPORT is specified

The DFSMSdss RESTORE command should not perform any checks for the source volumes when the IMPORT parameter is specified.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

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