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Add filtering for the HMC/HMA hardware messages to drop the red-herrings

Right now, on a busy IPL night, we can miss legitimate error messages on the HMC because of the flurry of "logical partition mode events" and "disabled wait...0a2" messages. If we could filter out which messages hit the HMC hardware messages state...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Z/os memory usage by service class and report class

Have the RMF type 72 record include seperate fields for 4k frames, 1 MB frames and 2 GB frames used by that workload. These new fields would apply to service classes and report classes. RMF 3 STORF screen is too cumbersome to automate the capture ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

raise severity of message IQP041I

message IQP041I should be issued with severity of WARNING or ERROR. It indicates that PCIE support is NOT available. The system will come up regardllessly and message IQP041I is the only indication of the degradation.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 2 Future consideration

DFSMS dynamically assign an overflow pool using a command

The Itau bank is asking IBM DFSMS team to improve the overflow SG pool function adding a new command to assign a overflow sg dynamically.
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Update system security query to include FTP and SMTP

Update the COMPEXTR tool to report on whether TLS is in use for FTP and SMTP servers.
over 1 year ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

zERT - externalize collection ID for JCC packages

zERT uses the NULLID JCC packages for database access by default and needs specific bind options such as KEEPDYNAMIC(YES) and RELEASE(DEALLOCATE). However, we have to operate other workload with different settings and need the possibility to speci...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Support ALTLIB settings for % REXX execs

The current REXX exec support only supports placement in SYSEXEC or SYSPROC. This makes writing/debugging row processing EXECs difficult, as some shops may not allow write access to libraries in the concatenation. The TSO ALTLIB command is the int...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Add IWQ details to SMF119 subtype 02 records

The IWQ algorithm change introduced in PH43504 means that TCP/IP connections can move from the primary input queue to the bulk data AIQ at any point during the lifetime of the connection. It would be useful to record details of bulk data queue reg...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

New HCD function to define multiple CU's in one operation

When adding new DASD subsystems, many of the CU's required by that subsystem have identical attributes (switch.port, CHPID.link address, CPU.LCSS connections, etc.) except for the CU name and CU address. It would be a great time saver if there was...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / HCD 2 Future consideration

Add policy export option (reconstruct JSON)

Policy sources, like all sources, can be lost over time. Providing an export feature provides two functions: recreating lost source, but it also provides a audit capability to see if the current source matches what is being used at this moment in ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

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