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Thin Provisioning support from z/OS guest under z/VM

Now z/VM has no exploitation support for Thin Provisioning function (ESE volumes) yet and RPQ 760-63961 has been approved for limited support.But they want to use the ESE related functions on z/OS guests under z/VM, such as ICKDSF init and DFSMSds...
over 7 years ago in z/VM 2 Planned for future release

z/OSMF Field Filters - Incident Log

Need the ability to filter on an 'is empty' value within the filter rules within, and also provide 'or' logic within the filtering rules inside Incident Log.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Tape temp dataset change request

The management class ACS routine is not driven for tape temp datasets, therefore the MC is not being passed to the TS7700 and uses the default.MC.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

v sms,sg(*),space

v sms,sg(sgtoto),space is supportedIt would be fine that :v sms,sg(*),spaceorv sms,sg(sg*),spaceorv sms,sg(all),spacewill be supported
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Not under consideration

Create SMF records and batch reports when data sets or members are referenced, updated, deleted or added

To provide functionality that ISVs provide for audit tracking of specified libraries and members. Create SMF data that contains the following information: 1) Date 2) Time 3) Library 4) Volume 5) PDS or PDSE Member name 6) User id 7) Program 8) Typ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 2 Not under consideration

zERT Sessions Exclusion

Provide ability for zERT to exclude loopback to loopback address sessions.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Implement JCL parameter that only considers GP time

In JCL the TIME parameter is used to limit the CPU time of jobs. Originally used to limit CPU times to save costs and find looping jobs. Through the introduction of Java this parameter will "misbehave" or leads to misunderstanding. Those jobs will...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Adding Compute Express Link CXL3.0 based on PCIe6 and CXL4.0 based on PCIe7 to the IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 6 Not under consideration

Requesting timestamp to be 'restored' to original for sym links when tar or pax is used to 'unzip' an archive file.

Hello USS Development team, As we prepare to migrate HFS user file systems to zFS I am testing back out scenarios and have observed that both the IBM provided migration utility (BPXWH2Z) and back out options I have tested (tar and pax to copy new ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

Implement an equivalent to MAXTNDSP used on the CD command for SDUMP today for IEATDUMP/SYSMDUMP/ABDUMP

The Java agent configured in xdump option CICS JVM server triggered a JVM transaction dump (TDUMP). We experienced a two minutes service interruption because TDUMP processing, by design, set all TCBs in the CICS address space in non-dispatchable. ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 0 Future consideration

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