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DupAck - Input and Output Out-of-order packets

It was noticed an abnormal ammount of "Dup acks" in TCP connections. Since the two end points of those connections are inside a datacenter (no external links) it usually means there are lost packets.Some traces (SYSTCPDA and SYSTCPOT) were capture...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add SSI 82 functions to return current values of items in DEF parms

We recently dropped all direct control block access (using an offset table) in a product, switching to SSI 82 ("the supported way"). This created an issue with one customer, who was depending on the value we returned for the spool volume prefix. I...
10 months ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Free screen size in ISPF

As monitor size have increased and the format of monitor have change from 4:3 to 16:9 I see a lot of monitor setups with monitors in landscape and portrait mode. And with 27" and 32" monitors a lot more can be showed on screen. At the moment ISPF ...
5 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Not under consideration

Rise limits of Guest Coupling simulation support

We try to run zOS systems within a sysplex with large DB2 group buffer pool structures. These structures cannot be allocated if zOS is running in zVM because they are bigger than the given (undocumented) limit. The intention is virtualize systems ...
5 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

IBM zSort accelerator to support removing dublicates

We have enabled the IBM zSort accelerator with succes. But notice that some of our jobs containing sorts, are not elegible.Specifically jobs that sort and remove duplicates. We believe that removing duplicates is a feature that should be possible ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 0 Future consideration

"Manage PCI System Services" Panel - View Access

We are currently installing the MCLs on our z15s and there is a requirement to update the Resource Groups. In order to see from the processor which pchids are in which resource groups, so that we can compile an SoE to document what needs to be tak...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

JCL DD statement, new DISP parameter status options or modifiers

There should be a way to specify in a DD statement the three following uses cases. Note that the "name" of each use case is simply to allow easy reference to that use case. Whether or not its actually implemented with that name is up to the implem...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands(Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in Software instance tool, so that the Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task.

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands listed below (Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in the Software instance tool, so that Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task. This wil...
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

zOSMF Enforce Default save location for all workflows

There is no possibility to define or enforce a default save location for all users. Each User can save a workflow to any location where he/she was write access to. As this can produce a complete mess and no one have an overview about all workflows...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Allow simplification with VARY XCF,target,OFFLINE with NOCONFIRM option to bypass IXC371D confirmation

Customer wants to ask IBM to consider enhacement with VARY XCF,target,OFFLINE command without the IXC371D confirmation by accepting the NOCONFIRM optional parm. Customer was tryin to take out an LPAR from the plex to simulate unexpected outage. Th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 5 Not under consideration

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