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BLKSize of 16KB is much less than TapeBlkSZLim of 256K

DFSMShsm only writes 16K-Blocks to Tape,both for Migration and Backup.Many of our files are greater ones, which would participate much of larger block sizes.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 7 Planned for future release

Ability to send message to zOS Syslog from Docker container in zCX

In an attempt avoid custom code running on the z/OS side I'm simply using fluentd to format the messages then write them out to the USS syslog, which in turn is set to write them to the console. They're being written out fine but are all preceded ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 3 Future consideration

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Allow user to update config of SSH CLI container for security-related control

Currently, for the SSH CLI container embedded in zCX address space, users are not allowed to update any parms for the SSH server and this will only pick the default Openssh configs for its execution, meaning clients are allowed to use some old and...
9 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

[zOSMF] Visual extension of Resource Monitor

I want to be more convenient the ability to customize the dashboard.When I did a demonstration of zOSMF resource monitor for customers, we got opinions, such as the following. 1. Fix the maximum value of the graph axis.For graph axis is not fixed,...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RMF 3 Future consideration

LE to support volume specification when referencing data sets as files

Allow specification of volume name with file name for services like fopen For example -- to open data set SYS1.PARMLIB member IEAIPL02 on volume D16PK2 as a file specify something like this: "//'SYS1.PARMLIB(IEAIPL02)[D16PK2]'"
3 months ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

AI-Powered WLM - New feature: Calendar for DAYOFF definitions

We have a monthly cycle on our daily schedules. Beside the normal working days, there are some days e.g. weekends or day-offs where the scheduled jobs are extremely different. We would like (as first phase of implementing this idea) to have the ab...
3 months ago in z/OS / AI Framework 2 Not under consideration

Enhancements to ACEECHK

Add clarification to IRR421I messages and granularity to the Failure option to allow for a more gradual implementation rather than a sledgehammer approach. This would benefit RACF Administrators gradually rolling out the failure option and help RA...
6 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

System Recovery Boost for OMVS subsystem

For now, we can't classify OMVS address space as BOOST on WLM policy. So if i have Middleware Recovery Boost who launch an OMVS address space who consume lot of CPU GCP time i don't take any advantage of BOOST feature. For example, ZOWE software c...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 3 Not under consideration

Add a possibility to limit the number of parallel tasks to prevent S878 ABENDing HSM STC

During recover of over 1000 datasets we increased the maximum recover tasks step by step to 12. Once we reached 12 HSM STC itself ABENDed because of a S878 because of a storage constraint below the line. This is documented as works-as-designed: ht...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration