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Adaption of RMF PM customization capabilities to z/OSMF

Unlike RMF PM it is not possible to have an overview of all essential performance and capacity related numbers on a CEC on one Screen without any requirement to scroll down and up.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RMF 3 Future consideration

manual Pairing for DFSMShsm frbackup

We use the frbackup command for copying our DB2 Environment in a new SYSPLEX. Therefor it is necessary that the first Volume of the source SG is copied to the first Volume in the backup Pool. The HSM make these Pairing more or less randomized. So ...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Not under consideration

access system variables of any system in workflow xml

I need access to system variables of other system. eg ${_sys-system-variablename}
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

advanced mapping json rest response to velocity variables

advanced mapping of json variables from a REST response to workflows variables (for example how you can get a value for a variable from this list? (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.izua700/izuprog_API_Sy...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Increase FTP Support for files with a large LRECL > 32767

We are running into several instances where application areas are unable to FTP files with large LRECL formats. The most common size being encountered so far is 32768. When conducting FTP with the LRECL X command the data still gets truncated/corr...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF Incident Log - Delete incident function should use a delete purge

When deleting incidents in the Incident Log plug-in the PURGE statement should always be used.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ISPF alignment in wide emulators

If screen (of emu) ist greater than nn*80, allow to specifiy alignment of (ISPF) screen. Today, alignment is always in the middle. Allow to specify align(left) or align(right).
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Pass FILE handle on HWTH_OPT_VERBOSE_OUTPUT

The z/OS Connect EE product utilises the WET to communicate from a C stub library to the z/OS Connect server. As part of servicability work, we added the capability to redirect diagnostic logging to a DD, much like the HWTH_OPT_VERBOSE_OUTPUT opti...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

PFA_JES_SPOOL_USAGE - exceptionmin value

We have a product that occasionally creates a spool exception with average variance of 4000 to 5000 TGs increases which is <.01% of out total TGs . The exception is very short, always back to normal before the next collection cycle.It is a SYSO...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 1 Planned for future release

DB2 Backup System, timely release SYSPITR lock when Backup fails

!!!! Not able to select the appropiate Produkt, therefore select a random produkt. Produkt should be DB2 for z/OS !!!! When SYSPITR lock is held too long this can lead to Groupbufferpool shortages and DB2 is unable to perform GRECP/LPL recovery. S...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Planned for future release

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