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DFSMSdss DUMP through dataset Alias

During a DFSMSdss DUMP operation the catalog search may find a match for a dataset alias, but it will not resolve to the related physical dataset and include that in the DUMP, it just reports ADR383W (001)-DTDSC(01), DATA SET A.B.C.ALIAS NOT SELEC...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 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

HMC/HMA & Radius Authentication

Update/modification to Idea ZL1S-I-400. The client is requesting HMC/HMA support/integration for Radius Authentication. This needs to address the scenario where there is no z/OS available in the environment (i.e., therefore not dependent on MFA).
9 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Planned for future release

IXCMIAPU Should Be Updated to Return The Default Value of Each Structure Attriubte To The CFRM Policy Editor

The CFRM Policy Editor is intended to make it easier and more efficient to manage the CFRM policy. There are many Structure attributes that are assigned default values if the user does not assign a specific value. While those default values are sh...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 2 Future consideration

CFRM Policy Editor Should Make It Easier to Manage PREFLISTs With More Than 2 CFs

The CFRM Policy Editor currently allows you to add a CF to a PREFLIST at the start, or the end, or in a random position. However, configurations with more than 2 CFs require an easier way to add CFs in any relative position in the PREFLIST.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Add Support for Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) Header in z/OS

The Performance and Diagnostics Metrics (PDM) IPv6 Destination Options (DO) Header is defined in : http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ippm-6man-pdm-option/ (This draft has been adopted by the IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Working Group of ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Command to display zCX memory SWAP, DATA and ROOT space usage

There is no command to display how much memory the zCX started task is using, or how much space is being used of the ROOT dataset; determining usage of SWAP and DATA is also difficult.This is separate from the within-docker commands to display ind...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

ATTLS, like IPSEC, should offload encryption to ziip engines

IPSEC has offloaded the encryption processing to ziip processors, and ATTLS should do the same.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

UCD agent on z/VM

Would it be possible to have a UCD agent running on z/VM.We do have Workflow from our UCD server to deploy/run jobs on UCD agents on z/OS.We have a requirement to run cp commands or rexx on z/VM.
over 4 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Supply z/ERT code as open-source

z/ert is only available for SMF 119 subtype 12.I would like to use the idea of z/ERT to check the other SMF 119 records. Use a z/ERT like program to retrieve certain connection information ex. Subtype 3 or Subtype 22 If the source code would be pr...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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