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Do not check CDUSE for an active LPA queue CDE.

Do not check CDUSE for an active LPA queue CDE. When more than 32767 LOAD requests for a module on the active LPA queue have been issued, with no corresponding DELETE, this would prevent message CSV002I from being issued and subsequent LOADs for t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Planned for future release

BPXWMIGF Swap Enhancement

I'd like the ability for the bpxwmigf migration tool to quiese the source file system at the end of the copy to target file system process so that the swap can safely be performed even if the source file system is actively being written to or read...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Additional information about the status of Cache Fast Write

Currently there is no easy way to be sure, that Cache Fast Write(CFW) is not used on your system. But in the event of an hyperswap CFW can be a problem. Therefore every customer should know their configuration. The problem is that the "DEVSERV P" ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

Have the functionality (PS to PSE) added to the DSS product.

We are moving data using ADRDSSU from legacy systems without any advanced dataset functionality to systems that support EAVS and hardware compression. The inability to replace PSE datasets with PS datasets is causing the restore jobs to finish CC ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Define shorter interval cycle for resource adjust in WLM policy

As shown in web site (WLM FAQ) and technical documents about z/OS, we understand that the interval of resource adjust in WLM policy is solid in each 10 seconds. This cycle is seems to be so long for the modernization of online transactions under C...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Not under consideration

SYMNAMES symbol usable as value of a FIXLEN

Allow a symbol to be specified for the value of FIXLEN in a PARSE statement
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF System Status - provide point and shoot

For System Status in z/OSMF it would be nice to have point and shoot capabilities rather than having to click on the arrow to find that there is only option (3 clicks in what could be done in 1)
about 9 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF Resource Monitoring ability to rename the metrics in the Legend area of the Dashboard Groups

It would be helpful for clarity reasons and to add more meaning to dashboards based on data being monitored to have the capability to rename the metrics in the Legends
about 9 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

UPDATE RACF APPCLU SESSKEY ENCRYPTION

o We are unable to connect JES2 NODES when SIGNON=SECURE is specified on systems secured by RACF and those secured by CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret. Nodes where RACF is in use on both NODES are connecting successfully albeit with a non-FIPS 140-2 comp...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

Allow DHSMSHSM to set a lifecycle policy during bucket creation

We are using IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering and HSM to migrate data to the cloud. We have had instances where the migration fails, which can result in orphaned "multipart uploads in progress" on the cloud object storage. We have been manually remov...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

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