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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

Extend CEEENTRY to support Debug Tool "Delayed Debugging"

Actually Language Environment Assembler Programs do not support Debug Tools Delayed (or Deferred) debugging due to the fact that the CEEENTRY macro does not register for "New Program Entry Point Event" as is done for LE Enabled COBOL, PLI and C/C+...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future 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.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 6 Not under consideration

request for a utility to copy from USS to MVS GDG

Request for a utility to copy files from USS to Z/OS MVS side
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Provide "MOVE" option to IEBCOPY /SHARE Requirement SSMVSS13010-Priority=3.7

Provide an option for IEBCOPY that deletes the members that are sucessfully copied to another PDS(E). "MOVE" is my suggestion keyword as that is the same function used to do this with ISPF.(opened per SHARE REQ-SSMVSS13010)
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

MODDVIPA error code for zCX DVIPA should be improved

If I create a zCX Application-Specific DVIPA range and attempt to allocate a DVIPA with MODDVIPA then the error message I receive is EZZ8314I DVIPA CREATE ioctl() failed for 10.137.90.97 ERRNO=EDC5121I Invalid argument. ERRNOJR=766C7303 If I use B...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Include functionality for tape optimization in HSM during dataset recovery from FRBACKUP DUMP tape volumes

Include functionality for tape optimization in HSM during dataset recovery from FRBACKUP DUMP tape volumes
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 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

-eA command: set key flags in accordance with RACF key usage

Our keys for OpenPGP are stored as X.509 certificates in RACF. Here key usage may be specified, for instance "Key Usage: DOCSIGN" or "Key Usage: DATAENCRYPT". When using Encryption Facility for exporting these (with the -eA command), Encryption Fa...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 2 Not under consideration

DFHSM ARCPRPDO should produce better details in the sysprint

Currently if the ARCPRPDO does not find any records, it only puts out the sysin input: CONTROL PARMS FROM SYSIN: COMPACT START(17175,080000) END(17175,110000) It would be better to provide better details in the output.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Not under consideration

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