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Common Recall Queue, Request for Enhancement

Common Recall Queue manual process of holding recall queue before you vary off local drives on specific LPAR, so the common recall queue can reach the other LPAR drives.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

TKE 8.0 is too loud

In comparision with the TKE 7.2 the TKE 8.0 is very loud, even if it is turned off. The TKE is placed in our office and the high noise level in off mode is disturbing while working.
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Not under consideration

Pct busy of each type of processor on system summary report

Cust is running 2 zVM systems. One as a IFL only zVM system, the other one with CPs and ZIIPs in addition in a VM mode LPAR. Each zVM has 5 IFLs which are highly used. We use system summary (panel 35 from menu) from perfkit for "system health moni...
over 9 years ago in z/VM 2 Not under consideration

Turn OFF VTAM INTERNAL TRACE OPTIONS : PSS,SMS by default

High-volume TN3270 applications are negatively impacted by this internal trace with options PSS and SMS being active by default at VTAM start-up.These options (at high transaction rates), cause excessive CPU utilization in the TN3270 address space...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 5 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Support to Provide Resource Inventory Managementy

When using Ansible or other orchestration technologies it would be helpful to have z/OSMF CP&M act as a resource manager for resources on z/OS. Ideally, having z/OSMF enable the following functions: 1. Provide a unique ID to associate multiple...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

zVM Flashcopy processing using XRC Mirrored volumes

When executing a CP FLASHCOPY process for dasd volumes (Cyl 1 - END), in an XRC mirrored environment, errors occur if the target dasd volume is a XRC Primary volume. The IBM Storage and VSE Support team provide STF a list of all dasd volumes the c...
over 4 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

DELETE VVR/NVR and misleading ICH408I violation on Master Catalog

When a Storage Administrator attempts DELETE VVR or DELETE NVR on an orphaned component on DASD, and the implied catalog does not match the catalog name within that VVDS record, and, the administrator does NOT have READ access to FACILITY profile ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

DEFINE USERCATALOG and Master Catalog UPDATE Authority Bypass

Storage Administration staff members should be specifically allowed to perform usercatalog recoveries without the provision of master catalog UPDATE authority. Currently, when a Storage Administrator attempts to Define or Connect a Usercatalog, UP...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Change key run-time services routines Language Environment to enable time virtualization software

Time virtualization software like ASG Technologies ValidDate, IBM HourGlass and Compuware Xpediter/Xchange must front-end the operating system Time Service routines and Language Environment runtime to allow users to test applications with future d...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

LDAP zOS - internal static group lookup

Create a parameter to choose the objectclass that will be used to search in DB2 for static Groups of a user in function tdbm_get_staticgroups()
over 9 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 2 Not under consideration