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z/OS

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Group initiator controls in jes2

Currently in Jes3 initiator counts can be controlled at class and group level. In jes2 although there is the concept of groups for classes, initiator counts can only be controlled at class level.I would like to see this introduced in jes2 to confo...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Include RMF field at PROCU Screen Monitor III and OMEGAMON

We are replacing our monitor by OMEGAMON and we are missing a field in RMF and OMEGAMON. We are using RMF PROCU (Processor Usage) screen and have the field Total CPU Time in mSec. We would like to suggest having more fields describing this CPU Tim...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Planned for future release

MVS "VARY OFFLINE" for an offline device should not request SYSIEFSD Q4 ENQ for 5 seconds

The current implementation for processing a VARY-OFFLINE-command is to request the "SYSIEFSD Q4" enqueue exclusively and cancel this request after 5 seconds if it could not be obtained.If due to some error or during allocation recovery some shared...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 2 Future consideration

Add ICSF Flush command

Provide a mechanism to complete any remaining ICSF work in-flight to be executed just prior to lpar shutdown. This would be in lieu of actually stopping ICSF.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

=3.3 Copy Relative Line Numbers

Provide support for ISPF 3.3 Copy (Panel ISRUMC2B) to select relative line numbers, as does with ISPF Copy within Edit (Panel ISRECPY1):Line Numbers (Blank for entire member, sequential data set or z/OS UNIX file) First line . . . . Last line . . ...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

DIAG/AUTOIPL inconsistencies

While using another IBM product (TDMF), we discovered that AUTOIPL processing doesn't use the Unit Addresses consistently. The IPL address (derived from MVS(LAST)) works fine because it's gotten from the UCB, however the IODF Unit Address (contain...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Pagent support for TMPDIR variable

We need to be able to specify where to have pagent.pid and TCPIP.Pagent.tmp files stored. Currently they are stored in /tmp and there is no mechanism to change that. We have cron scripts which delete files in /tmp after xx days (of not being refer...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Need SMFLIM to check for REGION=0M jobs (IEFUSI replacement)

Customer objective is to eliminate the use of IEFUSI and replace it's rules using SMFLIM. Currently they have coded in IEFUSI that all the JOBS should be changed to REGION=150MB, but those jobs that are coded with REGION=0M. These ones can use the...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

USS command bpxwmigf need to force a swap

I am using bpxwmigf uss command to help to migrate from HFS to ZFS, and also from a ZFS to another (extended) ZFS. It is very useful and reliable. But sometimes it fails to swap to the new ZFS due to message : status.......: swap deferred at 08:31...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Planned for future release

Allow RLSE using standard ISPF options for dataset allocations

In the process of doing a PoC for zEDC, we were allocating datasets several different ways using different parameters. One of the things that we found out is that using several of the standard ISPF functions such as 3.3, when you allocate a datase...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration