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SDSF DA should show zIIP in title line

SDSF DA (Display Active) shows in the title line the CPU usage from current LPAR, from the whole CEC and (if you have one) the zAAP usage.zAAPs are replaced by zIIPs.So please show the current zIIP usage in the title line.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Sizing IXGBRWSE BUFFLEN / System Logger IXGBRWSE Performance Enhancement

RC08 RSN80F (IXGRSNCODEBADBUFSIZE) is returned by System Logger when the data result of an IXGBRWSE invocation is too large to fit into the buffer provided by the caller. Currently, the recommended method to determine the BUFFLEN necessary for an ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 2 Not under consideration

Health check the completeness of volumes in a zOS HyperSwap configuration managed by CSM

The HyperSwap configuration should be checked that no PPRC enabled volume that should be in the configuration is missing, otherwise the integrity of data is not given in case a Swap occurs. It should be possible to define a list with exceptions of...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Make String variable text box re-sizable

I created a string variable called "fileContent" and mapped it to the response body from a GET REST API call. The GET REST API reads the contents of a dataset member. My goal is to edit the file contents in the variable and do a PUT REST API to up...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF notifications should support the use of HTTP - Proxy

We get the following error, when we try to use the z/OSMF - notifications - service: The connection to the host "https://ibm-zevent.mybluemix.net/messages" failed in push service "IBM Bluemix" . In our production environment it is not possible for...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance zosmf SMP Features

I have tested SMP APPLY PTFS with zosmf gui. Basically it works, but there are some quirks 1) The "corrective" type of apply should present a list of all ptfs received and not applied yet so i can choose from a list If i want to apply all ptfs rec...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

SA JES2 SPOOL monitor to detect unusual growth

In normal operation, JES2 spool can fill up and notification is received when we hit the JES2 warning level. The warning level we currently have set is 80% and we have SPOOLSHORT commands in-place to reduce this. However, what we do not have is vi...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

DFSMShsm FRRECOV enhancement to control FC relationship after FC background copy completion

With the current behavior of the FRRECOV CP(nn) processing in DS8K incremental FlashCopy environment, the FC relationship is withdrawn after FC background copy (BGC) completion. Therefore full volume copy is needed on next FRBACKUP CP(nn) incremen...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Customer should not encounter additional software workload when enabling zHyperLink

Additional CPU software costs should not be experienced when enabling zHyperLink features. The customer should be given the option to convet zHyperLink I/O to FICON if the workload is not going to run on a z/IIP. This will allow the customer to en...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Allow for no accounting information in z/OSMF

Hello, We are requesting for it to be possible to use z/OSMF functions (e.g. rest api's) without the need to define accounting info.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

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