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Clean up the DSFS dsadm query reporting

In the DSFS product the dsadm query has a number of reports. The issue is that the heading format is inconsistent. examples: compression has no header metacache has a header but no dashed line below it some have no space before the header so if mu...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Improve DSFS error messages

Receiving a message like this: IDFS00329E Could not set creation parameters, return code 126 reason code ED07621A. Is confusing and meaningless to the average OMVS shell user. They are not used to finding a messages and codes manual ( which is so ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

Healthcheck XCF_CDS_SPOF should be customizable via Healthcheck framework

The check IBMXCF,XCF_CDS_SPOF checks once every hour for single points of failure in CDS configuration. It also tells you once every hour, if you bought a machine with only one CPU drawer, that this indicates a SPOF. There is an option to ignore t...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Add options for connecting to a decommissioned CPC

When a CPC has been removed (i.e. moving from z15 to z16), it stays in the network for a little while. When doing the HWILIST such as by Broadcom's BCPii feature, it gets this decommissoned CPC and tries to connect. Once it tries the RESTful inter...
3 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

Need method to repair "admin" ID

The issue is that when logged in as the admin user that was built from the provision workflow, and /home/admin file/directory permissions get changed, including .ssh to something that SSH doesnt like, causes subsequent SSH logins to fail. Since th...
3 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

An enhancement or upgrade to allow support for SSO products, including SAM.

My organization is moving from LDAP to SAML
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

TCPIP Sysplex Autonomics with CSM constrain

VTAM CSM FIXED Storage arise 80% CONSTRAIN situation due to a high demand of TCP workload with 4 OSA 10 Gb interfaces. But returns to a level under 80% immediately. This situation repeats more than 1000 times in 2 hours.TCPIP Sysplex Autonomics do...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Provide enanched, automatically manageable information on STP status

STP related errors are displayed in the syslog very early at IPL time, and this makes it difficult for them to be captured by automation and monitoring tools on the fly. We request to enhance the “”DISPLAY ETR” command in two ways: - Include more ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Timer 2 Not under consideration

Increase the 1024 entry hard limit for CDT entries

Currently, there is a documented hard limit of 1024 CDT entries (ICHRRCDX entries+ICHRRCDE entries+CDT definitions) Right now, if you reach that limit, your only option is to delete some class definitions to make room for new ones. I've reached th...
3 months ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Future consideration

USS Kernel to lift MVS Wait restriction when threads need to be accessed by LE

LE CEEDUMPs fail to collect data from paused threads in a multi-threaded environment due to the use of PAUSE/RELEASE and are in an MVS Wait. We're requesting the USS Kernel remove this restriction (similar to APAR OA44116 for KernWait) so threads ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

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