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Data integrity check per dasd volume

Right now, data integrity is very very important in all IT systems. Very often, we would perform dasd volume copy in daily BAU or in system upgrade steps. We need to have a easy to use, straight forward and fast method to compare the data in 2 das...
14 days ago in z/OS / General 0 Submitted

DSFS takes 2 minutes to release ENQ on dataset member

Problem: We are starting to use DSFS. When I open a member in DSFS, I can see there is an enqueue of DSFS on the member. But when closing the file, it takes another 2 minutes before the enqueue is lifted. We tried to change the following values in...
14 days ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 0 Submitted

Add the ability to filter and entirely exclude different Hardware Messages from being presented at all on the HMC.

Every day use of OOCoD records to increase and/or decrease capacity on demand creates multiple alerts with the following text: "One or more profiles have been modified because the upgrade data has been restored". Our operations team has to acknowl...
27 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Submitted

HWTJCREN: Support unnamed root arrays in JSON parser

JSON allows for unnamed arrays as root, e.g. [] is perfectly correct. However, the Web Enablement toolkit currently rejects the request to create an unnamed array as root with HWTJ_JCREN_ENTRYVALUETYPE_INV. It should accept the request without a n...
27 days ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Enhance Kerberos/SKRBKDC limit to more than 2048 sockets

Currently, there is a hard coded limit of 2048 for the number of parallel open sockets for Kerberos / SKRBKDC (see Msg: EUVF04031E Limit of 2048 sockets exceeded). We're using Kerberos authentication for nearly all of our business transactions to ...
3 months ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 0 Future consideration

Enable access to input datasets for DSFS

Currently DSFS only supports output spool datasets. The addition of input spool datasets would be very helpful in providing a full user experience via the /dsfs/ sysout interface.
8 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Health Checker - VSAMRLS_QUIESCE_STATUS check

Whenever there is a situation that causes VSAMRLS_QUIESCE_STATUS to alert ( by reaching the predefined threshold for the quiesce status ) this check generates a list of the CICS regions accessible only if you go inside the check - that means you h...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 2 Future consideration

Accumulative PREFIX

To monitor multiple tasks without constantly resetting PREfix. Ex. During performance tests, I want to watch CTG*, CICS*, DB2*. I would like to see those 3....and only those 3 on 1 screen. So....something like Pre CTG*. Then +PRE CICS*. Then +Pre ...
29 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Functionality already exists

zERT Network Analyzer - Timezone adjustment with date/time for import

While loading data into zERT the start and end time reported in the 'Data Management History' tab is not the local or system time. It seems to be UTC and this cannot be changed via the Settings. As I would like to see those times in the local time...
4 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Change allocation unit from cylinder to megabyte or tracks for a better release

To avoid loosing space when customer allocate file in cylinder unit, it should be great to have a properties on dataclas to convert automatically cylinders unit allocation to tracks or megabytes. In this way the space release is done at tracks bou...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

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