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(Dynamic) Recalculation of JQE blocks when SPOOLNUM is increased to avoid increase of BERT resources.

Addition of several new spool volumes to a JES2 MAS unexpectedly increased the usage of BERT resources. In our case, this caused a critical BERT resource shortage. JES2 was last cold started in the year 1997. Therefor the calculated JQE block prob...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

Multiple Transcoding Options in z/OS NFS Client

Hello Support, Recently we figured out that when mounting an NFS destination from z/OS, we only have the option to use XLAT or not. However, if the mountpoint contains multiple file types (e.g. images and text) we are limited to one option only. W...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 1 Future consideration

HMC/SE indicator for FC0104 (Container Hosting Foundation) on z15 T02

There currently exists no easy way of displaying whether FC0104 (Container Hosting Foundation) is installed or not. With the z15 T02, the Image Details tab on the HMC currently displays whether System Recover Boost (SRB) is active or not. This wou...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Allow $TDESTDEF,RDEST=USER

Allow RDEST of DESTDEF to be modified dynamically. Currently it requires an all member warm start, which in many environments is just not possible so the change is impossible to make.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Create a user OMVS segment field to contain a umask value that would apply to file creation and chmod

Please enhance RACF to add a user OMVS segment field to contain a umask value that would apply to file creation and chmod.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

D ICEOPT

Hello, Proposal to create a "D ICEOPT" command. Recently we discovered that some obsolete/undocumented options were preventing the ICETPEX from being invoked. There was another LPAR in the plex which did NOT have these undocumented options and the...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 2 Not under consideration

Enhance zERT to Shut Off SMF 119 Subtype 01/02

The existing 119 subtype 01/02 is a subset of the new zERT 119 subtype 11/12. They should have the ability to shut off the 01/02 OR use the existing data from them - combined with a few additional fields in 11/12 to make one SMF file. Currently, t...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Additional SDSF reason codes to the client

I was trying to access the SDSF APF panel while the system was under heavy IO stress. Retrieving the data for the panel failed with: ISF452E SDSFAUX communications failed, return code 0x00000004, reason code 0x0036080F, function "query APF". Inter...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

z/OS Sysplex accross z/VM SSI members

The current design of z/VM allows a Sysplex to be set up on one z/VM environment and cannot be spread between different members of a SSI. RFE opened for requesting a solution for running a z/OS Sysplex across the systems of a z/VM Cluster.
almost 7 years ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

ISPF MODELs for ISREDIT

I have been thinking since about 1988 that it's odd that there are no ISPF models for ISREDIT.When I worked in UK with Development Support at North Harbour, they created a raft of these under the (then popular) ACE platform (see Ray Evans).Could w...
over 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

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