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modify preflist for multiple structures at one time

Sometimes we want to change some structures preflist in batch. If we can add this function into "Modify Multiple CF Structures" panel of zOSMF Sysplex Plugin, it will be great. Thanks!
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

UCD agent on z/VM

Would it be possible to have a UCD agent running on z/VM.We do have Workflow from our UCD server to deploy/run jobs on UCD agents on z/OS.We have a requirement to run cp commands or rexx on z/VM.
over 4 years ago in z/VM 1 Future consideration

Enhance REXX MVSVAR to return more system-related data

All Enhancements related to Enterprise PLI GETSYSWORD/GETJCLSYMBOL should be also available in Rexx using MVSVAR function or equivalent. MVSVAR('STEPNAME') Stepname of active TaskMVSVAR('PROCSTEP') Procstepname if any MVSVAR('SMFID') SMF ID of Sys...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 6 Future consideration

Capacity Provisioning Manager Record Report Does Not show MSU Cost for Upgrades

When using the CPOSERV OOCUOD Record Report, CPM does not provide any indication whether an engine is banked. This report needs to display the MSU cost for each incremental upgrade where in the case of using OOCUOD to activate a banked engine, the...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Capacity Provisioning 0 Future consideration

Holder can't be FORCED when their is SYSIEFSD ENQ contention

When the QEDIT assembler service is invoked to free a CIB, an exclusive ENQ on SYSIEFSD Q10 is obtained to serialize the CSCB chain. While holding the ENQ, a SPOST is issued to ensure that all in progress POSTS to the address space have completed ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Future consideration

OMVS TSOCMD does *not* honor IKJTABLS

IKJTABLS is used for the TSO environment and one would expect it to be honored with the tsocmd under OMVS but it is not. This was discovered when using tsocmd parmlib and it failed but the parmlib command worked under TSO. Added parmlib to the aut...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 5 Future consideration

Structure-level control of CF CPU utilization

As discussed in PMR, we had a high consumption problem of a WMQ structure in a CF impacting other users of the CF. Consumption CF reached 90%, and the consumption of structure in question has reached 80% of CF.We need a way to control the use of t...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 1 Future consideration

Enhance OMVS cp command

Enhance the OMVS cp command by allowing the user to set an option, perhaps via an environmental variable, to increase the number of buffers used for the copy.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

Option To Set A Logoff Timer For Users Showing As Disconnected

We have noticed that when some users are in Adapter panels and LPAR Controls (Possibly others) evem if they only have view access that they seem to lock the task out so others cannot access it. This seems to then remain locked even when the userid...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Future consideration

Improve error reporting/LOGREC records associated with OBTAIN failure

We recently experienced an issue that involved VTOC corruption which required a ZAP to fix the VTOC. When the error occurred and was reported, there were messages and a LOGREC record that identified the volume involved, but there was no way to kno...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 0 Future consideration

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