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update IEF033I message to include ZIIP usage time

Hello IBM, can I please for a change to message IEF033I as follows to allow the ZIIP time to be shown. This would be a small however important improvement scanning out batch jobs for ZIIP consumption. IEF033I JOB/QR2DAP49/STOP 2024008.0622 CPU: 1 ...
9 months ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 1 Future consideration

Avoid arbitrary MEMLIMIT=NOLIMIT assignments to REGION=0M jobs

Our IEFUSI->SMFLIMxx conversion was halted by an unpredictable design choice, which is: An implicit MEMLIMIT=NOLIMIT default when REGION=0M that *overrides* the explicit MEMLIMIT default in SMRPRMxx. This creates problems, such as: If a user...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Assign WLM Service Classes to DFHSM Sub-tasks

We would like a way to assign different WLM service classes to DFHSM subtasks. Specifically we'd like to assign RECALLs to a high importance/velocity service class and MIGRATEs to a lower importance/velocity service class. Can this be done while t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

CLONE the master catalog to a alternate name, with no internal updates.

We would like the ability to STAGE changes for up coming IPLS ( days, sometimes weeks in advance). Of the 3 components RESVOL, PARMLIB and Master Catalog... only the Master Catalog is not able to be cloned ...aka staged for a future IPL. Currently...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

Remove or mitigate z/OS Connect IMS API Requester COBOL LE POSIX restrictions that prevent some use cases

This pertains to case TS016566172. We (IBM TEL) have seen use cases for IMS API Requester using COBOL where the LE prevents z/OS connect from working due to POSIX requirements and restrictions. POSIX(ON) in IMS can cause other non-z/OS Connect cal...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Under review

Add an additional parameter for CBRUXSAE (OAM Security exit) to get the Db2 SSID or name of OAM system

Currently, we've the requirement to setup a Multiple-OAM Environment. This have to be done for some application restore tests. Currently, our OAM Security exit checks RACF for the access rights to the collections (the RACF ressources are the colle...
8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 0 Planned for future release

z/OSMF workflows and NCA to resolve system symbols

Currently z/OSMF does not resolve system symbols for tasks such as workflows and network configuration assistant, despite having the capability as described in the APAR PH41196. It would be very important that these features automatically resolve ...
12 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

show EAV related information is ISPF DSLIST

In ISPF DSLIST there are NO informations related to the dataset Placement on EAV volumes. I would find the following Information helpful, maybe as a separate page (via PF10/PF11) in DSLIST: - value of EATTR- number of cylinder managed extents- agg...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

z/OSMF can generate and validate JWTs, but the JWTs are only valid with z/OSMF itself. If z/OSMF could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ADRDSSU Dump: should not ignore migrated Dataset, at least give warning message for Migrated Dataset not included in DUMP

Hello Team,Our monthly maintenance process is lot dependent on ADRDSSU utility, where we take DUMP of target to Runtime and Runtime DUMP from one lpar to another using ADRDSSU. Last two months due to some SMS change some of our target libraries go...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Future consideration

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