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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...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / RMF 1 Planned for future release

USS_PARMLIB_MOUNTS Health Check Refresh After IPL

During a recent IPL a typo in the BPXPRMxx member had the incorrect name for a zFS file system. As a result, the mount failed with error message BPXF002I: BPXF002I FILE SYSTEM OMVS.ASYS.ORESB1.COBOL42 WAS 674 NOT MOUNTED. RETURN CODE = 00000081, R...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future 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...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

HSM and "Common Recover Queue"(Support needed when doing Mass Recover of datasets backed up by Autobackup)

We have common recall queue. We have common recover queue(From HSM dumps), but we do miss the option of balancing the resources in case we need to do massive Dataset recover from Datasets backed up via AUTOBACKUP function in HSM. So I ask you to c...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 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...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

SMP/E support of additional data element MCS types incorporating expanded use of NLS localization.

Data element MCSs describe elements that are neither macros, modules, or source. Any type of data element may be installed in any target or distribution library that meets documented requirements for data set organization, LRECL, and BLKSIZE. IBM ...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Citi requests WJSIPUSE be a formally supported product

Citi has had experience with WJSIPUSE. They asked me if it, or an equivalent, can be formally supported by IBM. I am submitting the request on their behalf.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

I am using XVFB in the USS. I need to be able to issue HOST commands to limit hosts that can connect to XVFB.

This would let us control the Xvfb Server
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

CSSMTP: Spool file should be not be picked up if no target servers are available

When CSSMTP encounters a "EZD1820E CSSMTP NO TARGET SERVER IS CAPABLE OF RECEIVING MAIL AT THIS TIME" condition, it continues to pick up files from spool and put them in a "WAIT" queue for that specific TKID. This can cause some delay in processin...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Support additional special variables like ISFTLINE in secondary panels like JDS when using REXX as %-action character

Some special variables like ISFTLINE are not supported on (some?) secondary panels (like JDS) when using REXX as %-action-character. Eg. ISFTLINE could be used to get JOBNAME or JOBID in secondary panel like JDS. Alternatively, having the JOBNAME,...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Planned for future release

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