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Support for GA2 to GA1 driver downgrade option

While planing to upgrade z14 GA1 to GA2 driver, the customer asks IBM to prepare guaranteed contingency revert plan in the case of GA2 driver causes the customer's production system failure. Unlike MCL apply, GA2 driver upgrade includs lots of new...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Not under consideration

Operlog should write more than a single MDB to a logblock to allow connecting of multiple MDBS for long multi-line messages

OPERLOG currently only writes a single Message Data Block (MDB) to a logblock for the OPERLOG logstream. When attempting to display OPERLOG in hardcopy format, know applications like IEAMDBLG, SDSFLOG and ISFLOG read single logblocks containing si...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

JES_NJE_SECURITY Health Check Modification

Our environments unique design does not require only one component of the JES_NJE_Security check. We've determined that we are unable to deactivate just this component and are therefore requesting that the component be separated from the original ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

DFHSM FRBACKUP - Update function to return rc=04 when a Volume Definition in the Source Storage Group is has no devn assigned

Currently when the HSM FRBACKUP command is executed, HSM will invoke the UCBLOOK macro against each volume in the source Storage Group(s). If this macro returns a rc=04 because there is no device currently assigned to the volume serial, the FRBACK...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Planned for future release

TSO RECEIVE support for DSNTYPE keyword

Allow XMIT files of a PDS to be restored to DSNTYPE(LIBRARY). That is, after command "RECEIVE INDS(xmit.dataset)" is issued, allow response to be "DA('new.pdse.name') DSNTYPE(LIBRARY)" and RECEIVE will allocate the new PDSE with DSNTYPE=LIBRARY be...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Overflow of JES2 Resources beause of typing error in a batch application or in using the FTP JES2 interface

In a JES2 environment it is easily possible to quickly overflow every single type of JES2 resources, which are JQE's, JOE's, BERT's and Spool Space.A simple typing error in a batch application or in using the FTP JES2 interface may lead to trigger...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Any OSPROTECT processing should be offloaded on zIIP processor

When enabling the OSPROTECT=1 attirbute, any additional workload should not be executed on CP but on a zIIP processor
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

zCX Support combined LFAREA usage (2G/1M) if not enough LFAREA is available within one type

Currently, zCX supports the use of LFAREA. This reduces the overhead for TLB and increases performance for zCX. If zCX is configured to use LFAREA and there is not enough LFAREA available within one range (2GB, 1MB) then zCX falls back to 4K what ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

IDCAMS DEFINE MODEL SMS parameters

In an IDCAMS DEFINE, if we specify a MODEL, it would be great if the SMS parameters (DATACLASS, ...) of the model be used.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

System utilities should produce more parseable output

IBM system utility output can be unnecessarily verbose. Most utilities produce page numbers, multiple headings, etc. Quite often this is not useful and must be filtered out by programs or scripts before or during processing. It would be be very us...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 4 Future consideration

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