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DFSMShsm for files Incremental File Recovery

We currently use DFSMShsm to back up entire ZFS data sets, as well as Spectrum Protect to back up individual files. When we need to quickly recover a ZFS to the most current state, we first recover the entire ZFS data set, followed by a selective ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Desktop Dataset Search api - Add support to edit MVS data sets with different code pages

For users who are not very familiar with ISPF, the Desktop Dataset Search feature of z/OSMF makes it possible to work with MVS data sets and unix files. Currently the z/OSMF Desktop Dataset Search api supports the edit of a unix file with a differ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Network activity need working prefix

You can use Filters but it is not that fast/easy. I would like to use the columns names. exampel: 'Jobname STCNAME' should filter all STCNAME. 'IPAddr 127.0.01' should filter that IP
8 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

We need to monitor the InfiniBand activity by CHPID via RMF

We just implemented some CHPIDs , COUPLE Links 1x between 2 sides 16Km long , into Production System but we can NOT see the individual rates of each CHPID . Via RMF III , SYSPLEX / CFSYS , we can see the Subchannel , Paths ,Sync and Async requests...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 3 Future consideration

CAPS for JCL only and lower case for other statements

CAPS is on or off for a member. Since JCL statement is require to be in upper case only . The editor know about that. Change the CAPS function in EDIT so it keep JCL in upper case and other statement in lower case.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance SMP TRANSFERONLY PTF Download

If i Download PTFS/HOLDATA with the TRANSFERONLY option i have a unix directory with a few files and an Order Entry in CSI The Order entry in CSI tells me the requested PTFS and or Holddata, but the exact content downloaded is unknown without RECE...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Enhance AT-TLS filters to allow hostname specification for RemoteAddr

For AWS ELB (Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing), we need support destination host name (instead of IP only) for attaching an SNI header using TTLSRules AWS Load Balancer externally uses multiple IP addresses of the range assigned to the e...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Future consideration

allow BCPii to show current number of engines enabled to a Z/OS (and any other type of) LPAR

There is currently a field in BCPii (number-general-purpose-processors) that we thought was the number of current GP engens enabled. Support has confirmed that this is not the current number of engines that are live, it's once again a re-statement...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

Assign MSGTYP=(JOBNAMES) to message IEF402I to better communicate job failures

At present, other job initiation/termination messages are visible to consoles with MONITOR(JOBNAMES) attribute set, such as IEF403I, IEF404I, and IEF450I. The lack of MSGTYP=(JOBNAMES) for IEF402I appears to be missing the spirit of the MONITOR(JO...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Copy SMF records to zWIN zfs without using FTP.

Currently, to copy SMF TYPE98/TYPE100 records requires using FTP. Unless using FTP, the RDW is not written to the zFS file and zWIN cannot process the records. Various utilities were tested, including File Manager but none of them copy the RDW. Th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration