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Enhance Capacity Provisioning Manager to better handle 10 second and lower RMF Intervals

CPOSERV is unable to complete its observation cycle while monitoring multiple systems/sysplexes where some of those sysplex are set with an RMFIII MINTIME of 10 seconds or lower. There is a business requirement to have the RMF MINTIME set at 10 se...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 1 Future consideration

Add the sum option to the UCLASS subcommand in Performance Toolkit

z/VSE is eligible for sub-capacity pricing. Then on it could be valuable to know how evolves the sum of the CPU load for all VSE's for which sub-pricing capacity is applied. The FCONTROL DEFLOG subcommand of the Performance Toolkit allows defining...
about 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Jobs/STCs supporting multiple TCBs that have TCBSENV populated with an USER ACEE result in the SMF 14/15 records show the USER of the TCB instead of the JMRUSEID.

Currently, customers of BMC TOPAZ/HCI see the address space userid as the issuer of an OPEN/CLOSE. The suggested change will show customers the USERID of the TCB performing OPEN/CLOSE instead of the Address Space USERID. At SMF 14/15 record creati...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 0 Future consideration

RMF Recording KiloBytes Transferred

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSEWCP98002: Voting Priority=2.5 +5=2 +4=1 +3=8 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=4 -1=1 Priority=2.5 (Please ignore the vote of 0.0 elsewhere) RMF should collect the kilobytes (KB) transferred for each device on an inter...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Health Checks formatted in a dump

Health check exception information should be included in a dump with IPCS formatters provided.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Future consideration

For space (Sx37) abends, report nn VOLUMES nnn EXT nnnnnn TRK used.

When you have a space abend, it is hard to determine how much space you had allocated if the dataset is deleted. Giving a count of number of volumes, extents, and tracks would be a great help. Listing each volume with number of extents and tracks ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 3 Future consideration

Allow suppression of messages to JOBLOG in MPFLSTxx PARMLIB members

Currently we have a number of messages which we don't want to suppress but we don't want to be visible in the JOBLOG as they can cause clutter. We stop these messages going to JOBLOG by using an MPF exit and coding the following: OI CTXTERF3,CTXTE...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 0 Future consideration

passwd() program should provide better messages for error conditions

Client has several users of the z/OS operation system server environment who utilize the the server's database, messaging and web services facilities without having a Telnet 3270 client on their workstation. The users connect to the server, from a...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

EWCP: Enhance classification of task INIT CPU time.

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSEWCP04007: Voting Priority=2.5 +5=1 +4=5 +3=5 +2=7 +1=2 abstain=4 -4=1 Priority=2.5 Initiator CPU Time measurements (TCB and SRB separately) need to need added to two SMF records, the RMF TYPE72 and the ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

SDSF DA should be able to display log entries in spawned tasks

If I'm in an SDSF Display Active screen and I issue S against a job that is running in the Unix environment (in the example I've attached it's an FTP job that's spawned when I establish an FTP connection to the LPAR) then the response from the S i...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

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