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DFSORT AI Engine

Customer runs lots of DFSORT workload and often has to tune its parameters according to the input file characteristics , amount of memory available and other factors. This can be a cumbersome task, error prone and sometimes cause inefficient use o...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

ACEE Modification Detection events to SMF

Having an ACEE modification event generate an SMF record would be helpful to an organization's SOC team or any SIEM solution. Today the only way to generate an actionable alert is to roll your own automation and build an actionable event based on ...
5 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

Have Grafana sign the RMF for z/OS Grafana plugin

Our organization does not allow the installation of Grafana plugins that are not signed as it poses a security risk, and I imagine that other organizations are the same. In order for us to make use of the plugin it needs to get signed by Grafana.
3 months ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

today there are IRA206I messages that come out showing the top users of storage when you have an Aux storage shortage. But would like to know who is consuming storage Before we run out.

Ideally, we would like to know the top users consuming storage if we hit the 50% limit. (instead of waiting until we hit the critical limits) so when this message is issued, it would be nice to have the IRA206I message issued. IRA205I 50% AUXILIAR...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

Override CFRM preference list on the SETXCF START command

Whenever there is the need of reallocating structures over the CFs available on a Sysplex the command SETXCF START,REBUILD,STRNAME is used. This command if used with the option LOC=OTHER will honor the CFRM preference list on the active policy. Th...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Enable DSFS /txt support for datasets in ISPF PACK format

IBM ISPF users have been using the PACK option of ISPF Edit since it was introduced in 1983 to conserve disk space, and in some cases provide a minimal encryption of their data. With the introduction of DSFS with z/OS 2.5 and 3.1 shell users can n...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Add Ability to install new products into existing CSI with z/OSMF Software Management

We would need a way to install new products into an existing SMP CSI_ using z/OSMF Software Management.For us, it would be sufficient, if z/OSMF under the covers installs the product into a temporary new CSI and then offers the option to merge tha...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration
155 VOTE

Add recovery function for REWIND/LOCATE failure on tape job.

System: z/OS Actor : user needing stronger fault tolerance Description: One of the reason why our customer uses z/OS is its storng fault tolerance. Especially, in multi-path einvironment they expect that I/O job will normally continue its process ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration
103 VOTE

RMF Monitor I Device activity should report about devices that were offline on a part of an interval

System: z/OS USER which uses RMF Actor: User needing RMF Monitor I Device activity report enhancement Description: RMF is a commonly used product on z/OS platform for reporting system resource such as I/O activity. Our customer encountered HyperSw...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

Integrate zowe into the base z/OS product and maintenance stream

zowe is becoming a key part of many installations devops environment and needs to be installed and supported as part of the z/OS service stream. By doing this it will save each site the added steps involved on the installation and maintenance and ...
10 months ago in z/OS / General 2 Future consideration