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Enhanced monitoring of VSAM RLS activity using z/OSMF interface

Whenever there is a need to check SMSVSAM health for contention, locks response times and record queues one has to rely upon console commands usually routed to all the LPARs that run RLS workload in order to have a big picture of what is going on....
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration

DSFS support for GDGs

It would be very useful if DSFS would also support GDGs. We already exploit DSFS with ssh transfer, but missing GDG support is a road-blocker.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

ZOWE User Redbook

So many questions in Zowe Slack! A user-friendly Redbook for user-level Zowe WIBNI
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Currently there's no check in the COPY command for ADRDSSU to see if the data sets are the RACF databases or not

Hi - Sometime ago, there was a problem when the data sets which contains the RACF primary and backup databases were moved using ADRDSSU. The data sets were protected as recommended by the books as well as they were assigned the PSU attribute. Howe...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Functionality already exists

Repeat msg CSFM655I AN ARCHIVED RECORD COLINCIPHER2 IN THE ACTIVE CKDS WAS REFERENCED,whenever CSF restarted

I used an archived keyand got message CSFM655I AN ARCHIVED RECORD COLINCIPHER2 IN THE ACTIVE CKDS WAS REFERENCED. If I shutdown ICSF and restarted it, then used the key again, I did not get the message. It would be good if ICSF can produce the mes...
15 days ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

JES2 $POLICY DISPLAY enhancement

$POLICY DISPLAY currently only shows installed JES2 policies and whether they are enabled or not. To keep the overview of all policies, there should be some enhancements made on this: Include the POLICYLIB from which the policy was loaded Include ...
4 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Usage of certificate instead of userid/password for log data transfer

To improve the user management process on the Mainframe HMC we want to implement regular automated reviews of the users that do have access to the HMC including the user settings.Instead of using the WebAPI we are planning to regularly send the re...
4 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 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

HCD: List which PCIe Functions are attached to an LPAR from „Partition List”

Today we are using OSA Express Cards on our native Linux on IBM zSystems LPARs for network access. To check if the shared cards are defined correct to the LPAR we use the “Partition List” within a CSS, (v) View attached channel paths.Now we also u...
5 months ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

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...
30 days ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

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