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Can I get a "B"? - AVGREC=B needed

Request to expand the use of AVGREC to include a pneumonic to represent a billion records.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 6 Not under consideration

STP setting and customization

With customers moving to zCloud, we are now combining customers with z/VM lpars set in different timezones onto a single processor. There needs to be a better method of utilizing STP, to alleviate unnecessary manual updates to the System Config fi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Server Time Protocol (STP) 1 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)
over 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
over 9 years ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

z/OS - WTO/WTOR add a No-Manipulate Parameter

Hello IBM, It is a critical requirement for products such as GDPS, that messages are seen by the product. This involves a significant amount of expertise and time to check z/OS, NetView and SA components to ensure that certain messages are not man...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under 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...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 2 Not under consideration

Use placeholder text instead of real text for field descriptions

When you've gone to create a new workflow and the workflow editor has opened, , some fields has text in them already. The text then has to be manually deleted to get rid of it (see attached screenshot bad.png). The fields "Workflow ID", "Descripti...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm CDS/Journal Mirroring support

DFSMSrmm needs to automatically resolve CDS consistency point from journal when recovering from unplanned DR event. Consistency point of the hardware produced an event to RMM where the Journal had been updated but the CDS had not. At startup today...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

SYMNAMES symbol usable as value of a FIXLEN

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

New feature of migratie DPM system by HMC/SE UI

DPM machine do not have a formal HMC/SE UI option to migrate system configuration between different machine generation. Current solution for this DPM migration is using API. For example, if customer want to migrate a DPM machine from z14 to z15, t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / DPM 2 Future consideration

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