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TCPIP Sysplex Autonomics with CSM constrain

VTAM CSM FIXED Storage arise 80% CONSTRAIN situation due to a high demand of TCP workload with 4 OSA 10 Gb interfaces. But returns to a level under 80% immediately. This situation repeats more than 1000 times in 2 hours.TCPIP Sysplex Autonomics do...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Add new parameter in SYS1.PARMLIB to allow OAM to use an optional LPAR name for zFS-resident objects

Currently, when OAM accesses objects where the Primary copy is resident in zFS, the full filesystem pathname is built dynamically, and one of the elements in the pathname is the LPAR name. In cases where an OAM environment is moved to a different ...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 0 Future consideration

DFSMS, SREAD OVER VOLUMES depending upon volume-status and free-space

'Spread over volumes' allocated always on the volumes at the beginning of a storagegroup, regardless of volume-status : QUINEW,ENABLE and free-space. If it supported the behavior of primary allocation over multiple volumes no longer differs from o...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Make IEBCOPY return codes consistent with documentation

When IEBCOPY hits certain warning conditions it issues a message such as IGW01557W MEMBER FOO NOT COPIED BECAUSE THE NAME ALREADY EXISTS IN THE OUTPUT DATASET CAUSING A COPY GROUP NO-REPLACE CONFLICT. "W" messages such as this are documented in ht...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

Enhance HCM Cable Assignments dialog, allow exclusion of connections that cannot be assigned a cable

In HCM, Cable Assignments, When viewing connections without cables, there are some connections displayed which cannot be assigned a cable. OSA, IQD types for example. Add an additional filter option to exclude from the display, connections which c...
7 months ago in z/OS / HCM 0 Future consideration

Relax dsadm createparm restrictions

Currently dsadm createparm has restrictions which makes it difficult to use. The HLQ specified for createparm much match the userid that is issueing the createparm command. This makes it impossible to use for HLQ's which are not related to userids...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Repeat msg CSFM655I AN ARCHIVED RECORD COLINCIPHER2 IN THE ACTIVE CKDS WAS REFERENCED,whenever CSF restarted

I used an archived keyand got message CSFM655I AN ARCHIVED RECORD COLINCIPHER2 IN THE ACTIVE CKDS WAS REFERENCED. If I shutdown ICSF and restarted it, then used the key again, I did not get the message. It would be good if ICSF can produce the mes...
3 months ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Provide enanched, automatically manageable information on STP status

STP related errors are displayed in the syslog very early at IPL time, and this makes it difficult for them to be captured by automation and monitoring tools on the fly. We request to enhance the “”DISPLAY ETR” command in two ways: - Include more ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Timer 2 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

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