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    Allow programmatic determination if a zIIP engine is online temporarily for System Recovery Boost

    We have had several customer requests for determining if a zIIP engine is online due to a System Recovery Boost or not (to prevent accidental activation in an LPAR). Currently the only way of doing this is by issuing a D M=CPU operator command and...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Planned for future release

    XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF ACTIVATION involving thousands of HW changes

    XCF signaling I/O stalls during IODF activation On an z/OS image that did NOT issue the HW ACTIVATE-Customer observed that CPU usage for all MASTER address spaces was more than 10 CPs for the RMF Mon 3 interval just before the IOS502I message. Add...
    about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Planned for future release

    Reduce CPU consumption of IOS HyperSwap API address space for a large number of addresses

    When executing a reload of the GDPS GEOPARM the IOSHSAPI ( IOS HyperSwap API address space ) consumes a lot of CPU in a short period of time when there is a high number of addresses under GDPS, causing some customer applications to slowdown and ha...
    almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Planned for future release

    Spot compatibility issue before run-time

    Link-edit message IEW2576I is issued by z/OS BINDER and program run-time failed with S0C1. IEW2576I 5034 RESULTANT AMODE( 24 ) OF ENTRY POINT AND RMODE( ANY ) OF SEGMENT 2 MAY BE INCOMPATIBLE. Since module should have RMODE(24) if it is call...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 1 Planned for future release

    BLKSize of 16KB is much less than TapeBlkSZLim of 256K

    DFSMShsm only writes 16K-Blocks to Tape,both for Migration and Backup.Many of our files are greater ones, which would participate much of larger block sizes.
    about 11 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 7 Planned for future release

    Implement -h (human readable) option for file related commands (ls, df, du ..)

    hi there, since we don't get the luxury of GNU Tools on z/OS USS i would at least expect an option for human readable output for the basic file related commands (ls, df, du ..). this is something *NIX distributions got decades ago, why not USS? Tr...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

    System Logger offload monitoring should create a diagnostic dump upon detection of an offload delay.

    System Logger offload monitoring provides notification of delays in log stream offload processing with the goal of allowing an installation to take action to prevent log streams filling to capacity, which would result in the failure of IXGWRITE re...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 0 Planned for future release

    An ABEND in OCEOV Recovery May Lead to an ABEND0C4-11 in DADSM SCRATCH, RENAME, or PARTREL

    As described in 87671,L6Q,000 PMR - we have encountered SVC catalog dumps. Upon analysis, they seem to be related to APAR OA33829.This problem is described in OA33829 which has been closed as a suggestion to be fixed in a future release.From IBM: ...
    almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Planned for future release

    Need job submitter userid in memory resident location

    To obtain the job submitter of a job requires disk i/o to get the JCTTOKEN out of the JCT for the job and then use RACROUTE REQUEST=TOKENMAP against the JCTTOKEN to convert the security token into human readable text that is mapped by the ICHRUTKN...
    over 5 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Planned for future release

    ISPF Edit highlighting for ACS routines

    The ISPF editor should be enhanced to support highlighting for ACS routines.
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Planned for future release

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