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Override EATTR attribute during Dfdss copy

Why is it useful? Current problem: Unable to use the Cylinder Managed Space (CMS) on an EAV volume during the DFDSS copy of large files. Copy job fails, with space abends even though the space is there. Use case/work around: DFDSS copy of large fi...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Need to cater for changing DLIBs when moving from small to larger volumes (catalog entry mismatch)

zOSMF is currently very restrictive and prevents installation to continue if DLIB catalog entries do not match. Especially in our case where we were moving from 3xMOD9 DLIB volumes to one MOD27 for DLIB datasets. This caused the installation to ha...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 3 Future consideration

EWCP: Enhance classification of task INIT CPU time.

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSEWCP04007: Voting Priority=2.5 +5=1 +4=5 +3=5 +2=7 +1=2 abstain=4 -4=1 Priority=2.5 Initiator CPU Time measurements (TCB and SRB separately) need to need added to two SMF records, the RMF TYPE72 and the ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

Enrich message ICH70001I with the number of attempts.

Asis: ICH70001I userid LAST ACCESS AT hh:mm:ss ON www, month, day, 19yy This message is issued when the Resource Access Facility (RACF) RACINIT service is invoked to initialize RACF processing for a new address space. The first time this user ("us...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

SDSF DA should be able to display log entries in spawned tasks

If I'm in an SDSF Display Active screen and I issue S against a job that is running in the Unix environment (in the example I've attached it's an FTP job that's spawned when I establish an FTP connection to the LPAR) then the response from the S i...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

z/VM TCPIP enhancemenr

Ability to allow IP addresses to connect to z/VM
over 6 years ago in z/VM 1 Planned for future release

RACF won't start in SSI if database disk is unavailable

Running on a z/VM 6.3.0 system in an SSI cluster, the customer's primary RACF database disk became unusable. Symptoms of the unusable database disk include: - When attempting to LOGON to a valid userid, the logon failed with message RPIMGR040T Use...
about 4 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Logger AUTODELETE at RETPD but not before

Requesting a new logger AUTODELETE option (e.g. AUTODELETE(RETPD)) where both active and inactive log data would be autodeleted at expiration, but not before. RETPD(N>0) Eligible for physical deletion Unexpired Expired Active Inactive Active ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 2 Not under consideration

SORTL instruction in SMF30

Hello dear team, Customer asked a question if we are planning to implement the SORTL instruction for SMF113 into SMF30 as well? Find below his question: "SMF113-record shows the use-count for SORTL-instructions. Are there any plans to bring this ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Not under consideration

SDSF access to UNIX Filesystems e.g. via xdc

In SDSF it is possible to archive reports via xdc to a Dataset. It would be very handy if it would be possible to save it here directly to a UNIX File e.g. "/home/user/file".
over 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration