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Relief for High CPU with KDFAES Password Encryption

After activation of KDFAES Password encryption, high CPU usage occurs in IRRMXPW0. APAR OA50748 was created to provide relief for the increased overhead. However, VTAM LOGON to IMS applications using different LUNAME/LTERMs and PASSTICKETs instead...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

SORT/ICETOOL statements for variable length records

Allow the coding of SORT / ICETOOL statements without having to add +4 to every position to account for the variable length RDW. This would require a new SORT option (perhaps VLRDW) to allow for both old and new method. Benefit: Easier to both cod...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Not under 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

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 0 Future consideration

Enhance zERT to Notify User that an Import is Complete.

Currently, one has to keep clicking refresh on one of the screens until it shows it's been fully imported.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance the Network Analyzer by providing the ability to cancel long-running import process

There is no external ability to manually free a hung data set by cancelling the operation if there is a long-running import
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Need to send SNMP traps about CEC events to customer's monitiring solution

My customer would like monitor the zSeries CECs hardware with SNMP Traps, so that when any HW error is detected by the CEC/Support Element an SNMP Trap is sent to their monitoring solution. I opened another similar request RFE ID 119355 but it was...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

DFHSM volume selection for CIDS allocation needs to check for contiguous space availability

This item requests DFHSM to check for enough contiguous space when selecting a volume for allocation of the CIDS. During the processing of the FRBACKUP command, one catalog information data set CIDS is created for each copy pool version. Each CIDS...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Not under consideration

JPMC RFE is needed to ask for future support to be able to delay, NOT CANCEL the scheduled code upgrade via the HMA. Today, there is no deferral option only a cancel option when approaching scheduled start time.

As there are many occasions where we need to delay the code activate for a period of time within scheduled window and would be a benefit not have to fully cancel and reschedule. Also, we are reluctant to do RCL in production is the inability to do...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

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

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