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z/OS

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Improve information in zFS statistics on z/OS

It is hard to use the zFS statistics because some key information is not available.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Ability to utilize an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to transfer data to an S3 bucket

Our company has an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy that requires us to use roles instead of IDs to access AWS. After meeting with Andrew Wilt from IBM, it was suggested we open this new Idea as this is not currently supported under DFS...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

Provide REFRESH capability on panel "DFSMSrmm Volumes (Page 1 of 2)"

When making changes to volumes (ie expiration date) on the DFSMSrmm Volumes (Page 1 of 2) panel, there is currently no way to refresh the list with the updated content, other than to back out and reenter. It would be very helpful if the REFRESH co...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

Improved CF Task and z/OS Subchannel Queue Management

Today, queueing based on subchannel availability is all-or-nothing, for all structures, and any one CF structure can consume 100% of the available subchannels during a spike, causing queueing and delays for all CF structures•APAR OA41203 does not ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

Add SMF119AP_TTStatus to SMF119 Subtype 1 Connection Init

Add the field SMF119AP_TTStatus to the SMF 119 Subtype 1 Connection Initialization record. This field was already added to the subtype 2 - termination record, but should also exist in the init record. This information is known to the system at con...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Move CICS LSR Pools above the bar

This is in followup with RFE 114714 We would like to see the LSR pools moved above the bar for CICS. This will allow us to allocate more number of buffers which will reduce physical I/O
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Future consideration

ISPF Edit: Add new paramater UTF8 to SOURCE primary command

Since ISPF Edit supports UTF-8 encoding as well as ASCII the SOURCE primary command should have a new possible parameter-value UTF8 to switch to UTF-8 editing during the edit-session.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

During zOSMF upgrade of zOS add the ability to connect Old Usercat to New Mastercat

For as long as Serverpac has been available (and maybe even before) when doing a zOS upgrade I create a New Master catalog and connect an old User Catalog to it which contains datasets that start with SYSINST in it. SYSINST is used for Serverpac d...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Add USERID/JOBNAME to USS BPXO058I + BPXF274I msgs

This request is to add userid/jobname to the USS mount failure message (BPXF274I) and the output of D OMVS,MF (BPXO058I). Mount failure message in SYSLOG: BPXF274I FILE SYSTEM OMVS.ZFS.SOMEFS 031 FAILED TO MOUNT. RETURN CODE = 00000079, REASON COD...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Optimized ADRDSSU CPU usage for uncompressed Striped Datasets backup

WHEN CALLING ADRDSSU TO DUMP A non-compressed SEQUENTIAL DATASET TO TAPE THE AMOUNT OF CPU FOR PROCESSING A 16 STRIPE DATASET WITH OPT(4) IS APPROXIMATELY 500-700% OF THE CPU USED TO DUMP THE SAME DATA FROM A NON-STRIPED OR SINGLE STRIPED DATASET ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration