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DFSMSrmm "Dependent Write"

The Itau bank has 2 large sysplex, the Bank and Cards, both systems are user of IBM DFSMSrmm product. Our 2 environments have the GDPS MGM (Metro/Global Mirror) with hyperswap solution, periodically we run our Disaster Recovery Test on Site C to c...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Not under consideration

Customize JES Keepalive value

Our customer has 2 centers, and there are z114s on both sites. And TCPIP NJE session is established between node of two center. If packet loss occured between 2 centers, it may cause disconnect of NJE session. We can't avoid packet loss perfectly,...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Allow a second ATTLS rule for the inbound data connection, with SecondaryMap Off, when using RACF.

Allow a second ATTLS rule for the inbound data connection, with SecondaryMap Off, when using RACF. If using RACF, then using two different ATTLS rules for FTP is not supported and the FTP data connection would fail with ATTLS RC5023 which means: ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Future consideration

HMC Monitor System Events fails to deliver message if SMTP server is unavailable

When a system event monitor is configured and a message is expected to be sent via the HMC, if the configured SMTP server is unavailable at the time the monitor event is triggered, then the message is sent via the HMC is lost and never delivered. ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 5 Not under consideration

ICSF panels - add key label usage / search function

Would like the ability to display what key labels were used during a certain interval or past xx days. With HCR77B0+ ICSF can track what keys were used, but there isn't an 'off the shelf' solution for sysprogs/admins to be able to view the data, i...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Not under consideration

RMF Data Portal - My View without using browser cookies

RMF is storing user data (view settings) in cookies. In many companies browsers are configured to delete cookies when the browser is closed. This is a security requirement which not can be changed by the individual user. In addition, stori...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Future consideration

z15 may I/O drawer requirement

Description:The Next Generation System will be released as a next banking system.Currently, we have two identical system environments, one of which is used and switched, so we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.These two environments exist in...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Not under consideration

Improve PFA_WLM_ADDR_SPACE_VELOCITY reporting

When CPU resources become constrained in a CEC and there are smaller/less-important LPARs in the same CEC as other higher-importance LPARs, WLM will favor the larger/more important LPARs and starve the other LPARs for CPU. In turn, this can starve...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 0 Planned for future release

Provide an option to prevent RPTSTG(ON) from internally resetting the initial stack size

When RPTSTG(ON) option is set, LE resets the initial stack size to 1MB for 64-bit applications. This is fine for code in which LE automatically expands the stack when needed, however for generated code (as in JavaScript code from Node.js) in which...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

DFSMS - Total capacity required by DSS DUMP or COPY

Daily, we have a batch running to dump few datasets to flash volumes using ADRDSSU FR(REQ) while the datasets are closed by ONLINEs and later dump those data on flash volumes to Tape. The other day, we encountered flash volumes capacity wasnt suff...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Future consideration