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Improve PFA_WLM_ADDR_SPACE_VELOCITY reporting

When CPU resources become constrained in a CEC and there are smaller/less-important LPARs in the same CEC as other higher-importance LPARs, WLM will favor the larger/more important LPARs and starve the other LPARs for CPU. In turn, this can starve...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 0 Planned for future release

Enhance IAZ0543I informational message

Any application doing a socket call to bind or connect to a IP address, or to get a port number from the TCPIP stack during startup can fail with LE's error message "EDC8116I Address Not Available" for the errno. It's up to the application to prov...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF NCA - Install Multiple - add Prologue comment capability

The Install Multiple feature is fantastic but lacks the ability to add a comment to the installed configuration prologue.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Add ICMP probe support to the Tracerte tool.

Currently Tracerte uses UDP packets for the probes and ICMP msgs for the responses. Firewall implementations prefer ICMP Echo & Echo reply msgs for Tracerte. Currently many other implementations either use ICMP msgs or allow ICMP msgs to be us...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

DFSMSrmm "Dependent Write"

The Itau bank has 2 large sysplex, the Bank and Cards, both systems are user of IBM DFSMSrmm product. Our 2 environments have the GDPS MGM (Metro/Global Mirror) with hyperswap solution, periodically we run our Disaster Recovery Test on Site C to c...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Not under consideration

Customize JES Keepalive value

Our customer has 2 centers, and there are z114s on both sites. And TCPIP NJE session is established between node of two center. If packet loss occured between 2 centers, it may cause disconnect of NJE session. We can't avoid packet loss perfectly,...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

ICSF panels - add key label usage / search function

Would like the ability to display what key labels were used during a certain interval or past xx days. With HCR77B0+ ICSF can track what keys were used, but there isn't an 'off the shelf' solution for sysprogs/admins to be able to view the data, i...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 2 Not under consideration

DFSMS - Total capacity required by DSS DUMP or COPY

Daily, we have a batch running to dump few datasets to flash volumes using ADRDSSU FR(REQ) while the datasets are closed by ONLINEs and later dump those data on flash volumes to Tape. The other day, we encountered flash volumes capacity wasnt suff...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Future consideration

Provide an option to prevent RPTSTG(ON) from internally resetting the initial stack size

When RPTSTG(ON) option is set, LE resets the initial stack size to 1MB for 64-bit applications. This is fine for code in which LE automatically expands the stack when needed, however for generated code (as in JavaScript code from Node.js) in which...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Request to change the time condition in CPM policies from GMT to local time.

This RFE is to request changing the time conditions in the Capacity Provisioning Manager policy from using GMT time to using local time.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 6 Not under consideration

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