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Support Element BCPii should notify the operating system when the CPC is put into and out of SERVICE mode

The BCPii in the z16 processor was enhanced to notify the operating system that the SE is unavailable when it is rebooting and when it is back online and available to be used. Use case was so that Operations didn't have to manually suspend BCPii v...
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Planned for future release

WLM performance index evaluation period should be reduced to 5 seconds or less

We have critical transactions that all of them should be ended in any case within 3 seconds. Even theses transaction have been properly defined to WLM, during high CPU utilization intervals, some of these transactions run for more than 5 seconds c...
7 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF create your own category on left bar

At the moment it is not possible to create your own category for your personal links on the left bar of the z/OSMF panel.You can only create a new link for a given category or create it as a "no category" button.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Compiler and Library for REXX on IBM Z to Generate 64-bit Code

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 06/05/2023 Submitter Name: Lionel Dyck Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: Enhanced the REXX Compiler to generate 64-bit code - let's free up the space below the bar.
7 months ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Compiler and Library for REXX on IBM Z to Generate 64-bit Code

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 06/05/2023 Submitter Name: Lionel Dyck Submitter Email: lionel_dyck@triserv.com Description: Enhanced the REXX Compiler to generate 64-bit code - let's free up the space below the bar.
7 months ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

Command output for LI DD,KVTS

We want to work with CUIR. In the output for the Command LI DD,KVTS, should be the jobname and the system name on wich the job is running displayed. We have several TS7700T shared with 21 lpars. It's difficult to find the currently mounted job.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

zCX: Make docker cli available as MODIFY command to the STC

Currently, we've to login to zCX to issue "docker" commands like docker logs to zCX. In an early phase like POC / testing this is no problem. But as we're continuing / have the first production applications running, Operators also have to work wit...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

RRS notification that there are a number of stale RM entries in its RM data logstream

Once a Resource Manager has registered to RRS, it's RM name persists in the RRS RM Data logstream. If an exploiter no longer uses that RM name, or if that exploiter is no longer active, the RM name entry will remain in the logstream unless explici...
10 months ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

Keep history of changes when changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When changing or creating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF, although the person who submits the updates can view information about their changes from the View Text Contents panel, others don't know what changes they have made. So we want to keep the hist...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Enable VSAM browse/view from ISPF (without additional product such as File Manager)

Browse (and perhaps view) a VSAM dataset directly from ISPF without having to install an additional product such as File Manager
about 9 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

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