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Capacity to configure and monitor vswitch buffer

System: zVM Actor: System Programmer needing to monitor and manager the size of vswitch. Description: We have a large data stream via UDP Multicast and we find that vswitch is discarding packets when your buffer fills. We need to have the capacity...
over 6 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

JCL syntax checking for AVGREC=U with SPACE=(CYL|TRK)

It is currently acceptable to have AVGREC=U and SPACE=CYL, but going to a secondary volume, the allocation changes to TRK. This can cause more than 59 volumes to be used, causing the job to fail. When job is going through conversion,this scenario ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Change the TCP/IP Base Resolver Configuration search order

Move DEFAULTTCPIPDATA so it comes before SYS1.TCPPARMS(TCPDATA) in the TCP/IP Base Resolver Configuration search order.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

Test ability for PAGENT updates prior to installing them

IBM to provide a function in pagent to test a staging file for correctness prior to staging file being stored in production location. This would allow a file ready for production to be tested for logic errors prior to being installed
over 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Let zOSMF assume that PMR numbers for PDDU are IBM ones?

Hi, When in Incident Management in zOSMF and selecting "Send Diagnostic Data" a PMR number must be entered. It is assumed that the PMR number is not an IBM one unless a box is checked. The default should be that it is an IBM PMR and the checking o...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Metadata for certificates

For certificates, would like metadata that identifies things such as who the cert. was sent to.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

Scripting

- Logical Separation- Independence from HW, FW, OS, etc- Ability to combine multiple CCA commands
about 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 2 Not under consideration

Provide the last modified time stamp for a sequential dataset on z/OS

I provide a tool that reads a file, then subsequently updates the file. I want to be able to detect if the file has been modified by another process, but since the sequential dataset does not provide a modification time stamp, I am unable to do th...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Future consideration

More info for Netstat TTLS display

Currently right now there is no way to just see all the connections that are using ATTLS without doing a multi step process. It would be nice if we can get an enhancement to the NETSTAT TTLS display where it would just display all the Connections ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

Conditional visibility of variables in UI

I want to be able to hide certain input fields based on content of a variable.Example: CICS=YES/NO. If CICS==YES, then CICS_OPTIONS variable is visible.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration