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VSAM RLS Lock Information

Today VSAM RLS relies on the LISTSUBSYS(ALL) and LISTSTAT IDCAMS share control dataset commands as a way to list the CICS regions which hold locks in RLS files and to provide statistics of usage of a certain sphere. There is no information about w...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 0 Future consideration

Add mount option to perform ZFS file system integrity check at mount time

When coming up for the first time in DR, we have a request from one of our teams to be able to run a file system integrity check to look for any ZFS corruption.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF workflow granularity for DELETE

It used to be that only the owner of a workflow could delete it. Now it is anyone who has access to <saf-prefix>.ZOSMF.WORKFLOW.ADMIN Recommend that perhaps by making the workflow Restricted or Private also means that it cannot be deleted ex...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

DS8886 (with 10.000 devices) failed, IOS0002I SQA COMPON=VSM,COMPID=SC1CH,ISSUER=IGVVSERR,OUT_OF_SQA and LPAR crashed

System:IOS Actor:need improved error recovery Description: DS8886 failed (because of Microcode Error).LPARs loose thousands of volumes (with multiple path).IOS recovery procedures need TO many common storage (below).Common Virtual storage constrai...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

RACF panel Display Sys Options results in Open for Output rather than input

Due to Audit requirements, we monitor datasets that are deemed critical to determine who has accessed those critical datasets and whether it is an acceptable/authorized access. We have noticed that our reports have been reporting access to the 'SY...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

RMF Postprocessor Cache Subsystem Activity report volser filter option

We would like to get a filter option for volsers for the section “Cache Device Activity / Cache Subsystem Device Overview” of the RMF Post Processor Cache Subsystem Activity report. It would be great if we could use generic specifications like "vo...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF Stack affinity

When using z/OSMF to send diagnostic data we are not able to specify an IP-stack for the FTP send process.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

ECSA Storage Shortage Prevention

When the system is under ECSA/CSA stress have a new ENF signal raised to inform users that obtain ESCA storage and not give it back for performance reasons to give back that storage back and take a performance hit in order to prevent ESCA/CSA from...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 5 Not under consideration

Allow users to determine actual HSM function run times from CDSs

We are trying to process DFSMShsm MCDS and BCDS to retrieve actual run times of HSM functions (primary space management, secondary space management, automatic backups and automatic dumps). There are complete time and date fields for every function...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Record "V" DCOLLECT IDCAMS

The record type "V" of the DCOLLECT would contain the notion of "SPACE EFFICIENT". It could be much more easy for us to see if this volume is an SE or not.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Future consideration

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