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Allow the use of zOS system symbols in catalog entries

When defining a catalog entry, you can specify VOLUME(&SYM1) for example but not (NAME(HLQ.&SYM1..LLQ)). For that you need a catalog entry then an alias with SYMBOLICRELATE. There are instances where we would find it useful to have a symbo...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Under review

IO Timing Facility - Page Devices Support

We previously submitted an RFE for I/O Timing Facility (IOT) Page devices support.RFE : https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=49685 When we submitted this RFE, we expected the system to enter the non-restartable...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Enhance DSFS CreateParm to support masking for the path

The createparm path is currently a high-level-qualifier of one or more levels. It needs to be more granular such as hlq.*.ASM or hlq.*.EXEC as this makes more sense as all ASM would be FB 80 and EXEC would be either FB 80 or VB 255 depending on th...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

RMF I/O new panel with RATE/response time for ASYN SYNC(zhyperl) CSR (Consistent Read Secondary)

We currently get the I/O response time and and I/O rate by running a RMF report (summary) as follow : The JCL //RMFPP EXEC PGM=ERBRMFPP,REGION=0M //MFPINPUT DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYTMVS.$SJ08.W9AS3JC.SMF.TOUT.D240128.TKS1 //PPSUM001 DD SYSOUT=* //PPSUM0...
10 months ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

Enhance z/OSMF Desktop Interface

An enhanced user interface will benefit all users by reducing the effort needed to get around in the GUI. Hi, Currently, the z/OSMF Desktop Interface consists of an unstructured group of icons and a status line. When an icon is opened by a double ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

SPOF health checker support for multivolume datasets and provide selection pattern

1) for DB2 LOGCOPY it is recommended to allocate a stripe format dataset The SPOF health checker should check that all of the volumes for DSN1 are on different CUs than for DSN2 Example : Disk Controller : CU1 with Volser V1, V2 and CU2 with Volse...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Allow to offload records at SMF LOGSTREAM, with OPTIONS(ARCHIVE) for specific SID or allow with OPTIONS(DUMP) with offload and delete for a specific SID.

As we already know, that IFASMFDL SMF offload utility with OPTIONS (ARCHIVE) does not allow us to offload with specific to a SYSID when more than 1 LPAR are connected to the same Log Stream and at the same time on other hand with the OPTIONS (DUMP...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Provide new functionality to import data in to zNA using the Db2 load utility instead of inserts

- Db2 load utility can be scheduled as a batch job - Load can be run with log no, reducing the logging overhead - Less resource contention
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Allow CBU real activation during CBU test

Allow CBU real activation during CBU test.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 6 Planned for future release

Know how close an AS is to exceeding MEMLIMIT

MEMLIMIT is defined as the limit of private virtual storage that an address space can use above the bar any given time. But, guarded virtual storage and storage obtained with memlimit=no does not count against the MEMLIMIT. In SMF is reported SMF3...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 0 Under review

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