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Show the correct SCRATCH volume count in ISMF and DFSMSrmm

Today we have a problem to show the SCRATCH volume count in the ISMF panel, because it does not matched the real available scratch volume count in the IBM VTS library manager data base. The problem is the "Delete Expired Volume Data setting". Is t...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Allow user to update config of SSH CLI container for security-related control

Currently, for the SSH CLI container embedded in zCX address space, users are not allowed to update any parms for the SSH server and this will only pick the default Openssh configs for its execution, meaning clients are allowed to use some old and...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 1 Future consideration

ISPF Edit should be site configurable to prevent the Editing of a non-zero PDSE member generation.

Editing a non-zero (non-base) PDSE member generation is asking for trouble for many reasons, the least of which is that non-zero generations are not able to be accessed via JCL or dynamic allocation. After much discussion on PDSEGEN the decision a...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

RMF I/O new panel with RATE/response time for ASYN SYNC(zhyperl) CSR (Consistent Read Secondary)

We currently get the I/O response time and and I/O rate by running a RMF report (summary) as follow : The JCL //RMFPP EXEC PGM=ERBRMFPP,REGION=0M //MFPINPUT DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYTMVS.$SJ08.W9AS3JC.SMF.TOUT.D240128.TKS1 //PPSUM001 DD SYSOUT=* //PPSUM0...
4 months ago in z/OS / RMF 2 Future consideration

Reduce the increase of number of CICS getmains after LE z/OS 2.4 and new parameter CEENXSTG

After the migration to z/OS 2.4 the number of CICS getmains increased by 40 percent.This tremendous increase is caused by the introduction of the new Language Environment parameter CEENXSTG.CEENXSTG is a parameter that indicates whether non-execut...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

zCX/Openshift Multi-Architectur Support with VMWare & zCX

With OpenShift 4.14, OpenShift supports Multi-Architectur setup with the Control Nodes on x86 and e.g. Worker Nodes on s390x (zCX). Unfortunately, VMWare is a not supported plattform. Without that support, we'll never get the chance to go to produ...
6 months ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

DFSMSdss COPYDUMP function would include an option to Tape REBLOCK

DFSMSdss DUMP tape created using Large Block Interface , reduces its usability for other components, besides RESTORE and COPYDUMP.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration
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Full ISPF Support for PDSE V2 Generations

ISPF needs to fully support PDSE V2 generations. Currently ISPF Edit supports creating a new generation when a member is saved but none of the other ISPF services recognize a generation. Access to prior generations is not intuitive and thus effect...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 9 Future consideration

Add version number next to component levels in APAR pages

Scenario: you are a new MVS system programmer tasked to obtain the PTF for a specific APAR. You go to IBM Support, search for the APAR number/name and find the APAR page. For example if we take the page for APAR OA62703 it lists the following fixe...
10 months ago in z/OS / Service 1 Future consideration

Enabling of a rest service/https support to use OAM functions

Enhancement of OAM by enabling rest service support for customers to use OAM functions
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration