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Add the sum option to the UCLASS subcommand in Performance Toolkit

z/VSE is eligible for sub-capacity pricing. Then on it could be valuable to know how evolves the sum of the CPU load for all VSE's for which sub-pricing capacity is applied. The FCONTROL DEFLOG subcommand of the Performance Toolkit allows defining...
about 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Performance improvement for FTPs MVSPUT

When the FTP subcommand MVSPUT (introduced with z/os v2r1) is used then for each member transmitted a new data connection is established. For a non-encrypted connection, this is no problem, but for an encrypted connection each of those data connec...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Enhancement for Encryption Facility Product

Problem when using the command rP Command during Encryption Check PMR 67534 661 706, all details is descripbed in the PMR
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Capacity Provisioning Manager to better handle 10 second and lower RMF Intervals

CPOSERV is unable to complete its observation cycle while monitoring multiple systems/sysplexes where some of those sysplex are set with an RMFIII MINTIME of 10 seconds or lower. There is a business requirement to have the RMF MINTIME set at 10 se...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 1 Future consideration

Record number of ping requests and responses for TCPIP (By interface), as a network debugging aid

I've spend days trying to configure IP V6 and z/OS, (also with 2 TCP images on one LPAR). It has been very hard to see if traffic has got to z/OS, and if the reply came back. With midrange I can use Wireshark. The equivalent packet trace on z/OS i...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

RMF Recording KiloBytes Transferred

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSEWCP98002: Voting Priority=2.5 +5=2 +4=1 +3=8 +2=6 +1=3 abstain=4 -1=1 Priority=2.5 (Please ignore the vote of 0.0 elsewhere) RMF should collect the kilobytes (KB) transferred for each device on an inter...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

Health Checks formatted in a dump

Health check exception information should be included in a dump with IPCS formatters provided.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Future consideration

Provide Creation Time in ISPF 3.2 for data sets created with EATTR=OPT

Hello, in support of the new Format 9 DSCBs created for data sets defined with EATTR=OPT (or VSAM) on an EAV, ISPF 3.2 displays the creating jobname and creating stepname for the requested data set. But, there's a third information contained in F9...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

For space (Sx37) abends, report nn VOLUMES nnn EXT nnnnnn TRK used.

When you have a space abend, it is hard to determine how much space you had allocated if the dataset is deleted. Giving a count of number of volumes, extents, and tracks would be a great help. Listing each volume with number of extents and tracks ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 3 Future consideration

Add option BACKUP to HMIG command.

Add option BACKUP to command HMIG that backs up a DSN to a HSM backup volume if none is present, then migrates the dataset to a migrate volume.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

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