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DFSMSrmm CDS/Journal Mirroring support

DFSMSrmm needs to automatically resolve CDS consistency point from journal when recovering from unplanned DR event. Consistency point of the hardware produced an event to RMM where the Journal had been updated but the CDS had not. At startup today...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Upgrade TSO STATUS command to support JES JOBGROUP

The TSO STATUS command is used to find the status of jobs previously submitted to JES. With z/OS 2.2, JES was enhanced with a new feature call JOBGROUPs. This feature allows jobs to be grouped together. Currently the STATUS command has very rudime...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

Serialization at dataset instead of VTOC for DSS DEFRAG

We use an alternative defrag solution today and are interested in vendor consolidation - using IBM's built in DSS tool would allow us to simplify our Mainframe environment.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

New feature of migratie DPM system by HMC/SE UI

DPM machine do not have a formal HMC/SE UI option to migrate system configuration between different machine generation. Current solution for this DPM migration is using API. For example, if customer want to migrate a DPM machine from z14 to z15, t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 2 Future consideration

Crypto Hardware Adjunct Processor Assignment

Crypto Adjunct Processors (APs) are assigned to Crypto PCHIDs at Power-on Reset time. In our experience they differ across multiple z15s despite being identical in hardware configuration. Can we manually assign APs to PCHIDs even if it requires a ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF System Status - provide point and shoot

For System Status in z/OSMF it would be nice to have point and shoot capabilities rather than having to click on the arrow to find that there is only option (3 clicks in what could be done in 1)
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF Resource Monitoring ability to rename the metrics in the Legend area of the Dashboard Groups

It would be helpful for clarity reasons and to add more meaning to dashboards based on data being monitored to have the capability to rename the metrics in the Legends
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

Compute node HA

HA for compute node services (pcs nova, cinder, neutron etc)
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Future consideration

Provide iNotify subsystem as on Linux and LoZ

This is a request to have an 'inotify' subsystem on z/OS, as currently exists on Linux and LoZ. There's no API on z/OS to monitor activity on directories, and poll() can only monitor files, sockets, etc. - but not directories.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

NMI support for OpenSSH SMF record type 119 94-98

We would like to collect SMF records for sftp 119 subtypes 94-98. We are currently using the NMI to collect SMF 119 records and report on them. Can we get these records via the NMI? Seems inconsistent to us to provide some records via the NMI and ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / OpenSSH 3 Future consideration