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Capacity Provisioning Manager Record Report Does Not show MSU Cost for Upgrades

When using the CPOSERV OOCUOD Record Report, CPM does not provide any indication whether an engine is banked. This report needs to display the MSU cost for each incremental upgrade where in the case of using OOCUOD to activate a banked engine, the...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

Holder can't be FORCED when their is SYSIEFSD ENQ contention

When the QEDIT assembler service is invoked to free a CIB, an exclusive ENQ on SYSIEFSD Q10 is obtained to serialize the CSCB chain. While holding the ENQ, a SPOST is issued to ensure that all in progress POSTS to the address space have completed ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Future consideration

Enhance REXX MVSVAR to return more system-related data

All Enhancements related to Enterprise PLI GETSYSWORD/GETJCLSYMBOL should be also available in Rexx using MVSVAR function or equivalent. MVSVAR('STEPNAME') Stepname of active TaskMVSVAR('PROCSTEP') Procstepname if any MVSVAR('SMFID') SMF ID of Sys...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 6 Future consideration

Structure-level control of CF CPU utilization

As discussed in PMR, we had a high consumption problem of a WMQ structure in a CF impacting other users of the CF. Consumption CF reached 90%, and the consumption of structure in question has reached 80% of CF.We need a way to control the use of t...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

Option To Set A Logoff Timer For Users Showing As Disconnected

We have noticed that when some users are in Adapter panels and LPAR Controls (Possibly others) evem if they only have view access that they seem to lock the task out so others cannot access it. This seems to then remain locked even when the userid...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Future consideration

Enhance OMVS cp command

Enhance the OMVS cp command by allowing the user to set an option, perhaps via an environmental variable, to increase the number of buffers used for the copy.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

Using GCP Workload Identity Federation in DFSMS Cloud Data Access

We've had discussions, about the security, with our internal Cloud Core team and they're suggesting to use GCP Workload Identity Federation instead of GCP service account json file and it's going to improve the security issues significantly.
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Provide TLS_NEGKEYSHARE data for TLSV1.2 protocol in zERT Type 119 Subtype 12 Reporting

We would like to see the TLS_NEGKEYSHARE column in zERT Reporting contain the data which will reflect which elliptical curve is in use. The SMF 119 layout has the field below: 40(X'28') SMF119SS_TLS_Neg_Key_Share 2 Binary Negotiated key share:...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

DSFS CreateParm should NOT require a previous allocation under secondary qualifiers

When using the dsadm createparm the -path requires that at least one dataset already be allocated under the provided hlq. Other than the 1st qualifier, that should not be required.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

DSFS Fileinfo should report ALL models under HLQ

When using the dsadm fileinfo to query the file information, it should report on ALL pds/psmodels under the hlq.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 2 Future consideration