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Round robin scheduling of SRBs to CF list connectors

z/OS will always process the list notifications on a given system in the same order. It steps through the queue of structures that have active connectors on the system, one at a time, looking for structures that have list notification users; and t...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

Improved support for SMB-related parms via DYNALLOC

We support customers who depend on the use of SMB and, specifically, SMBDFR=N. They have asked us to support continuous availability through the ability to detach & reattach certain VSAM files while the underlying platform (a started task) rem...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Future consideration

MMAP function under z/OS USS should be able to use 64bit address space.

We have a proof of concept to run an off-the-shelf name indexer product under z/OS USS. This product is a native 64-bit Java 8 application that uses the Lucene indexer. The product functions under USS for small indexes. However, the call to mmap i...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

DFSMS read-only variable for disposition parameter

DFSMSrmm EXPDT retention method can exploit management classes to set expiration dates, can retain data sets based on catalog status, etc., but there are some retention settings that were previously implemented with the VRSEL retention method that...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

zERT - externalize collection ID for JCC packages

zERT uses the NULLID JCC packages for database access by default and needs specific bind options such as KEEPDYNAMIC(YES) and RELEASE(DEALLOCATE). However, we have to operate other workload with different settings and need the possibility to speci...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Add IWQ details to SMF119 subtype 02 records

The IWQ algorithm change introduced in PH43504 means that TCP/IP connections can move from the primary input queue to the bulk data AIQ at any point during the lifetime of the connection. It would be useful to record details of bulk data queue reg...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Future consideration

SMFLIMxx processing needs to be enhanced.

SMFLIMxx processing needs to be enhanced to allow for a REGION statement match to indicate that no other REGION statements should be processed.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Z/os memory usage by service class and report class

Have the RMF type 72 record include seperate fields for 4k frames, 1 MB frames and 2 GB frames used by that workload. These new fields would apply to service classes and report classes. RMF 3 STORF screen is too cumbersome to automate the capture ...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 2 Future consideration

DFSMS dynamically assign an overflow pool using a command

The Itau bank is asking IBM DFSMS team to improve the overflow SG pool function adding a new command to assign a overflow sg dynamically.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Add dynamic allocation failure on Primary tape copy to criteria for automatic Backup

A common error condition for the Primary copy on tape is a dynamic allocation failure. Currently, this does not trigger the AutoBackup feature, if enabled. This anomaly totally defeats the benefit of AutoBackup.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

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