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z/OS UNIX System Services - enhance D OMVS,MF to display requester

Enhance D OMVS,MF to display the requester of the (failed) mount attempt. Currently the D OMVS,MF does not provide information on who (what userid/job) is attempting to mount a file system (and fails). In our scenario, D OMVS,MF showed that 'someo...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

Forbid a zFS mount of an IDCAMS PATH

When we create an IDCAMS PATH on a zFS, although the IBM documentation says "DON'T DO IT" , it is still allowed. Plus, zFS allows a PATH to be mounted on mountpoint A while you can still mounthe real zFS to mountpoint B, which lead to corrupt our ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

SPOF health checker support for multivolume datasets and provide selection pattern

1) for DB2 LOGCOPY it is recommended to allocate a stripe format dataset The SPOF health checker should check that all of the volumes for DSN1 are on different CUs than for DSN2 Example : Disk Controller : CU1 with Volser V1, V2 and CU2 with Volse...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Prevent sysplex outage in case of a loss of x-site DASD conn. affecting CFRM CDS's and x-site signaling conn. is maintained

When a system at site 2 first notices a loss of a CDS (primary, since that CDS is usually at site 1), it will broadcast a signal to other systems to initiate removal of the primary. The site 1 systems will dutifully do so but since all connectivit...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

switch from IEFUSI to SMFLIM

Hi IBM, today we use IEFUSI to adjust Region Limit and Region Size for z/OS Address Spaces.With this Exit, we also make sure that we have a sufficiently large difference between Region Limit (LDALIMIT/LDAELIM) and Region Size (LDAVVRG/LDAEVVRG). z...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Job Holded/Released statuses in z/OSMF REST services

Job response document contains only 3 statuses "INPUT", "ACTIVE", "OUTPUT" now. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=zjri-json-document-specifications-zos-jobs-rest-interface-requests But we can also hold a job and job will be waiting for r...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zCX: Allow specification of TZ variable during provisioning / same time zone for all users

According to the zCX Users Guide every user can set TZ= environment variable to set the time zone. This would be required after every login or by changing the login script. This has to be done on a user base. It would be better if a central TZ= en...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Add Support for Fast Replication / Flash Copy for backup of the RACF Database

Provide a method to backup the RACF Database that takes advantage of the current utilities that perform Fast Replication/Flash Copies where the backups are more instantaneous.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 8 Future consideration

ZOSMF recursive workflow

Requesting to add feature for recursively calling workflow steps.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Allow a custom threshold to start additional servants

Customer has an Application Server configured with a mininum of 10 and maximum of 20 servants. Each servant is configured with the workload profile as "CUSTOM" and the variable server_region_custom_thread_count=200, witch give us a minimum total o...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 1 Not under consideration

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