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Enhance logical dump of PSE data set to effectively use the larger blksizes provides by z/OS 1.12 BSAM support

In fact, searching further from our database I found following interesting info around how DSS proceeds the sequencial data set in extended format --- Because of the interface DSS uses to DUMP PSE data sets, we have never "chained" the tracks of a...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Add option to accept BASE94 ct_krd token in TR34 CSNDT34B BIND service

As per AANDC protocol the KRD is sending BASE94 format ct_krd token to Remote Key Loading application. The CSNDT34B BIND service accepts only DER format. Hence the RKL application has to perform a conversion and there is a possibility that it coul...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Future consideration

Devsup Report of all parameters including defaults

Have one report to display all the fields and value for all parameters that are in DEVSUP member. Today, we have to doc the multiple places to validate fields. See use case.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 2 Planned for future release

Allow ML1 DASD volume DEFRAG when HSM is active

Based on a Case that I had opened regarding the use of DFDSS DEFRAG and ML1 DASD volumes, IBM Support mentioned that "...if you want to do defrag the ML1 volumes, you should backup the ML1 volumes first and then shutdown HSM. You should not runnin...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Add a message to indicate an error when z/OSMF cannot verify the certificate you provided

An error message indicating z/OSMF couldn't use the certificate provided (visible to the end-user) would decrease the amount of ICH408I messages in our system log. Something like "Certificate not recognized by z/OSMF. Use standard login method ins...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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

LE storage report STACK64 option new feature

The Maximum used by all concurrent threads is to count active thread number which is counted after thread initialization before thread termination and could handle the workload. We need one thread number statistics value align with the stack lifet...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Timestamp in IKED joblog

It would be immensely helpful in a troubleshooting situation to have timestamps in the job log of the IKE daemon.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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