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    HSM should correctly calculate tape utilization by taking zEDC compression into account.

    As more customers are expected to adopt zEDC compression in the future, HSM should evolve to handle it appropriately.The following two are examples of defects. 1. Unnecessary RECYCLE triggered by a miscalculation of the PCT VALID value caused by z...
    5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

    z/OSMF Config Assistant: Support read only mode when backing store is locked

    When a user needs to open a backing store in the Configuration Assistant and the backing store is in use by another user, you are presented with the option of canceling or destroying the other user's lock. If the user only needs to view the config...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

    ICSF - Enhance IFA742I SMF SIGNATURE VALIDATION FAILED - provided tokens

    Currently when two tokens are provided for the validation whereas one is not valid, IFASMFDP only issues:VALIDATION FAILED: RECORDED AND SUPPLIED CRYPTO OPTIONS DO NOT MATCHbut the program would know if the SGINVALIDATE or the ASIGNVALIDATE token ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

    Add Certificate Information to TLS command

    When updating our certificates in our environment we would use a packet trace to confirm that our certificate updates occurred. This method worked since in TLS 1.2 and earlier the Server Hello would have the certificate in visible in the flow. How...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Future consideration

    z/OSMF SMF support

    Based on an already closed z/OSMF RFE request (RFE ID: 47399) in 2014 I want to re-open a similar request to ask for SMF support again.We are in need of a central logging feature for actually ALL z/OSMF activities (e.g. Login-Logout, invoking plug...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

    New Resource Group based on available capacity (System Scope)

    All Resource Groups available today are towards a defined amount of CPU / MSU / Service units and, once defined, are flat. It would be useful for us to have the ability to define a resource group that varies with the system utilization. One use ca...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

    z/OSMF Software Deployment - Add workflows

    Unable to add customer specific "workflow" in a software deployment.
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

    Allow changing a internal MIH value set by MODULE IOSVDPDR and IOSRRRSV

    There are some Japanese banking customers who issue VARY dddd,OFFLINE,FORCE command when an I/O timeout occurs on a device which have a redundancy by software (ie. IMS OLDS). As a result, these devices for being no-response are separated out and a...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

    Would like z/OSMF Deploy to create the USS directories and mount the zFS files for the SMP/E target datasets defined in the DDDEF's.

    In the past when you order IBM software the old ServerPac service would prompt you for the USS path and the zFS files. z/OSMF does this also. Then as one of the last stepsthe product would run a job to create the USS directories and would also mou...
    10 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

    All shell and utilities must respect the code page tag on all files.

    I'm primarily interested in the openssh, specifically ssh-keygen, but all shell/utilities need to be code page tag aware. This is extremely important as some ported tools will create files as ISO8859-1 causing those files to be unusable by some of...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 4 Functionality already exists

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