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Provide RMF metric id for every individual data object.

All data returned for an RMF DDS Report Request should also be available as single metric.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Make Abends in CBRUXSAE (OAM security exit) visible

As OAM is a crucial product component at our site we use a SITE developed version of OAM security exit CBRUXSAE. There could be circumstances, where this code can abend. Unfortunately the very only result is, that the requestor gets an unsuccessfu...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 2 Not under consideration

Allow SID on OUTDD for IFASMFDL program

System: SMF Logstream Dump programActor: Any user of SMF data IFASMFDL program is used to dump SMF data from logstreams. Description IFASMFDL program does not allow SID on the OUTDD statement. Multiple jobs have to run to dump unique SID to separa...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

The TSO-RCEIVE command force DSNTYPE=LARGE for datasets larger than 2Gb. Bypass this to let SMS to allocate the ds.

TSO-RECEIVE command force DSNTYPE=LARGE for datasets larger than 2Gb. This causes that the receiveing dataset allocation is forced to DASD instead of being managed by DFSMS routines.Specially for large datasets might be useful to allocate them on ...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Link between called workflows in Archive

When workflows call other workflows, a connection is made between them, there is a link set up in the calling workflow to the called workflow, to easily find it and open it up. When the workflows have been archived, the link is no longer there, an...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Change Default For VSAM Files Definition Extent Constraint Removal To Yes

We experienced a major outage in a number of our critical production systems late last year due to a Db2 partition hitting max extents before it could hit the maximum defined data set size. Db2's space management algorithm was to scan the full dat...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 5 Future consideration

z/VM support of SuperPAV

DS8880 (DS8884 and DS8886) and z/OS supports SuperPAV. z/VM does not support SuperPAV. More Alias required per LCU. Support of SuperPAV will relieve UCB/address constraint.
over 7 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

z/VM support of thin provisioned ECKD Volumes | HCP9050W CP-OWNED volume is on a Space-Efficient DASD.

z/VM does not support IPL from Thin thin provisioned ECKD Volumes. Preconfigured DS8880 (with thin provisioned) can't be used for z/VM system disks. Preconfigured HDS VSP G1000 (with thin provisioned) works fine for z/VM system disks (HDS VSP G100...
over 7 years ago in z/VM 1 Planned for future release

Update RVARY response to distinguish RACF deactivate vs database deactivate

This request is to get the ICH702A message/WTOR updated to be able to distinguish between RACF being deactivated and a RACF database being deactivated. Whether it is a new message or updating the text in the message does not matter. The reason for...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Health Checker by including DB2 checks (IBM Development)

Enhance Health Checker by including DB2 checks (IBM Development)
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Not under consideration