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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...
8 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...
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future 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.
8 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.
8 months ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Not under consideration

CSSMTP Add Return-/Reason-Code to Message EZD1813I

When CSSMTP detects some error during the process of a SMTP Mail which prevents the transmission of the mail to the remote SMTP Server it issues message EZD1813I. This message is WTO issued and can be processed by a System-Automation component. Bu...
5 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance active and status displays with acee userid

Please add to these displays a column with the ACEE Userid - I'm not sure where owner is coming from but we have started tasks that are started by a server address space under the started task userid and then change to a specific userid which is r...
5 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 4 Functionality already exists

Fast Replication target volumes that have no UCB should be ignored

With FR the pool storage group(source) and the COPY POOL BACKUP storage group(target) must not contain predefined devices without UCB. Application data can grow very fast, so we use automated tasks that initialize new volumes. Unfortunatelly, when...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

z/VM needs to support SNMPv3

Support SNMPv3 to support bank standard that this type of communication must be encrypted.
over 5 years ago in z/VM 3 Future consideration

Increase maximum length of MVS Console commands

The MVS console does not accept commands longer than 126 characters.This can be a problem when issuing long commands (such as DUMP, SLIP, or GTF commands) from CLISTs or other automation scripts. Given that this occurrence is quite frequent, we sh...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 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

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