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Extent CP Flashcopy with IBM Remote Pair FlashCopy (Preserve Mirror)

Make IBM Remote Pair FlashCopy also known as Preserve Mirror available for CP Flashcopy. This way flashcopy will not affect the PPRC duplex state and GDPS will not complain. The system stays hyperswap ready during the flashcopy. Which is now not t...
about 5 years ago in z/VM 2 Future consideration

Open source z/OS: project OS/3

Project summary: fork z/OS into an upstream that is released as open source under the name OS/3. Why?: To bring the mainframe to the home. Big Picture: There is another project that started as weird niche enterprise software that computer science ...
3 months ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

Force HSM to reconnect active request to DS8k HMC

Using TCT HSM sends migrate/ recall requests to the DS8k HMC using IP. In case there is a problem with this HMC, it's possible to reconfigure SMS with an alternate HMC, but the active tasks are still connected to the 'failed' HMC and never end. Fa...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

BLKSize of 16KB is much less than TapeBlkSZLim of 256K

DFSMShsm only writes 16K-Blocks to Tape,both for Migration and Backup.Many of our files are greater ones, which would participate much of larger block sizes.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 7 Planned for future release

An enhancement or upgrade to allow support for SSO products, including SAM.

My organization is moving from LDAP to SAML
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 3 Planned for future release

[zOSMF] Visual extension of Resource Monitor

I want to be more convenient the ability to customize the dashboard.When I did a demonstration of zOSMF resource monitor for customers, we got opinions, such as the following. 1. Fix the maximum value of the graph axis.For graph axis is not fixed,...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RMF 3 Future consideration

Move ICSF cell pools above the bar

If a high enough burst of ATTLS requests comes in at once, ICSF cell pools can grow rapidly enough and fill CSF private storage. This results in ABEND878s and TCPIP leaving the sysplex group. At this point, an IPL is likely desired. Moving these c...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

A full PDSE dataset should be able to delete members without needing additional DASD space

We currently have a large SMP/E SMPPTS PDSE dataset which is full on a volume with only 5 available cylinders. Attempts to delete a member from the PDSE result in a E37-04 abend because the system is trying to get an additional extent. The dataset...
9 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Planned for future release

Mount point and directory hierarchy verification

Just like the SYNTAXCHECK checks the syntax of BPXPRMxx, I'd like to have the ability to compare whatever there is in the BPXPRMxx in terms of mount and mount points against the root file system. A feature that checks if the mount points exist in ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

Provide option to specify time zone for all z/OSMF logs

Provide a configuration parameter to set the time zone so that the time in the IZUG0.log and many other logs are in sync with the time in many other software and SYSLOG.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Future consideration