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Add hardware-level utilization information for PCIE cards

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSSHARE012857: Voting Priority=2.9 +4=2 +3=4 +2=9 +1=6 abstain=2 Priority=2.1 (Please ignore the other vote of 0.0) Currently, the RMF PCIE XML report provides information about the use of a PCIE card for ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

Crypto ID in toggle on/off panel

When isolating a crypto engine we have to verify the crypto deactivated in ICSF with the crypto engine on the toggle off/on panel. It would be beneficial if we could verify the serial number from ICSF with the toggle off/on panel before taking the...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

IEBPDSE Report Enhancment

Enhance the IEBPDSE report to: 1. Move the DSName to the top of the report 2. Add information on what processing parms were specified
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

Requesting a way for CSSMTP to send alerts or messages to SYSLOG for failed emails.

We had several hundred mainframe emails from our batch cycles that were blocked and we were not made aware. We need a way to either send these messages to our SYSLOG so that we can look for them or we need a way for CSSMTP to send out an alert so ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

USS Health Check for MOUNTS limit

a USS Health Check would give a warning for when a threshold was crossed, alerting users to a fixed limit for the number of files that can be mounted.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Allow a callable workflow to call a callable workflow

Currently an error is produced when a callable workflow attempts to call a callable workflow. Please remove this restriction.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

LE to surface correct information when 31/64 bit code is incorretly used via DLL

* if 31/64 bit code in intermixed in a non supported manner (DLL)* message "EDC5206S DLL module name too long" is shown * The correct information (CEE3587S A call was made to a function in the AMODE 31 DLL //FU018J from an AMODE 64 caller)surfaces...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP command optimize the default block size for PS-E.

Now DFSMSdss DUMP function makes a output dataset to DASD with half track block size (default). If using 3390 type DASD, default block size is 27998. When output dataset is Extended format (PS-E) , the system adds a 32-byte suffix to each block. S...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Provisioning workflow for zCX instance provisioning

Current standalone workflow to provision zCX instances is very well made. We believe zCX instance provisioning should also be made available as a provisoning workflow, which would include all the additional configuration done by z/OSMF cloud provi...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Zert database access layer

The goal to have some level of role-based access controls within the zERT Network Analyzer application itself. For example, there could be a role that can only execute queries and view the reports, another that can create, update and delete querie...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

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