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Fast Replication target volumes that have no UCB should be ignored

With FR the pool storage group(source) and the COPY POOL BACKUP storage group(target) must not contain predefined devices without UCB. Application data can grow very fast, so we use automated tasks that initialize new volumes. Unfortunatelly, when...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands(Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in Software instance tool, so that the Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task.

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands listed below (Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in the Software instance tool, so that Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task. This wil...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Needs more information

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands(Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in Software instance tool, so that the Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task.

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands listed below (Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in the Software instance tool, so that Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task. This wil...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Needs more information

Increase maximum length of MVS Console commands

The MVS console does not accept commands longer than 126 characters.This can be a problem when issuing long commands (such as DUMP, SLIP, or GTF commands) from CLISTs or other automation scripts. Given that this occurrence is quite frequent, we sh...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Future consideration

z/VM needs to support SNMPv3

Support SNMPv3 to support bank standard that this type of communication must be encrypted.
over 5 years ago in z/VM 3 Future consideration

Free screen size in ISPF

As monitor size have increased and the format of monitor have change from 4:3 to 16:9 I see a lot of monitor setups with monitors in landscape and portrait mode. And with 27" and 32" monitors a lot more can be showed on screen. At the moment ISPF ...
5 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Not under consideration

Rise limits of Guest Coupling simulation support

We try to run zOS systems within a sysplex with large DB2 group buffer pool structures. These structures cannot be allocated if zOS is running in zVM because they are bigger than the given (undocumented) limit. The intention is virtualize systems ...
5 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Reduce CPU consumption of IOS HyperSwap API address space for a large number of addresses

When executing a reload of the GDPS GEOPARM the IOSHSAPI ( IOS HyperSwap API address space ) consumes a lot of CPU in a short period of time when there is a high number of addresses under GDPS, causing some customer applications to slowdown and ha...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Provide a percentage status of DFHSM expirebv process completion

Currently, the expirebv process for our dfhsmuss (file mode host) environment runs for days and would be nice to see a percentage completion IE, 25%, 50%, 77% completed.
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

convert more than just the IBM-1047 to UTF-8

We're really interested in DFSMS CDA and have a lot of use cases. However, more code pages need to be added to the CONVERT option. We need to have support for EBCDIC 278 <=> UTF-8.
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration