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Provide method to determine how many drawers are installed in a z16 CEC. (Or future CECs)

We use BCPii interfaces to create dashboard concerning our CEC environments. It would be nice to have all data concerning a CEC be accessible. In particular we would like to be able to tell how many drawers are in a CEC. (MAXxx type info).
11 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Future consideration

Smarter HMC

Using the z Series Hardware Management Console is a manual process to define, configure, disable, enable and IPL logical partitions. As the coupling facility control code is not shut down like an LPAR containing e.g. z/OS it could happen that the ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

IEBPDSE enhancement for data pages overlaid

Our customer encountered JES2 ABEND because HASJES20 was corrupted after the PDSE had been copied from the test system. Contents in 4 data pages(just 16KB) were certainly different from original. But IEBPDSE utility cannot check out. Our customer ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 5 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

Increase TAPEVOL facility class limit to 50k

Current TAPEVOL facility class used by HSM tapes is limited to 10k and we can have 10 suffixes if following volser ranges as numbers. Currently on my system, we have breached this limit and working on moving from TAPEVOL to DATASET facility class....
11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

Further modify the PDSE monitor's processing

Through cases of Blocked Workload when lower priority tasks hold resources but do not get sufficient CPU time to complete their work and then release those resources which are in turn being waited on by higher priority tasks. • Seen in CPU constra...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

The HFS unload utility IRRHFSU should be officially supported by IBM and also made available as an assembler program.

The HFS unload utility IRRHFSU should be officially supported by IBM and also made available as an assembler program.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under 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

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...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

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

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