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zfsadm shrink should provide a means to automatically specify -size without running aggrinfo or calculating from fsinfo

zfsadm shrink requires too much manual intervention to be useful. -size must be taken either from aggrinfo, or calculated from fsinfo, then manually added to the zfsadm shrink command. zfsadm shrink should provide a means to do this automatically ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 2 Future consideration

zfsadm shrink should provide means to mount R/O filesystem R/W, then switch back to R/O after zfsadm shrink completes

zfsadm shrink requires too much manual intervention to be useful. Forcing a user to manually remount the filesystem R/W, then remount it again as R/O is time-consuming and error prone. zfsadm shrink should provide a means to do this automatically....
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

IEBCOPY Site Default for GENS=ALL

IEBCOPY should have a site wide default (parmlib) for GENS=ALL
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

RRSF TCPIP stack affinity

We use RRSF on LPARs with multiple TCPIP stacks. Currently there is no way to set stack affinity so that RACF only binds to a particular stack. Without stack affinity, outbound RRSF connections initiated from a system with multiple TCPIP stacks ma...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Future consideration

Better diagnosis of JES2 checkpoint performance issues

Following a recent incident triggered by an application change which caused 130'000 unintended emails to be sent out via a trusted mail server (CSMTP) instead of the usual 4'000, this high amount slowed down JES2 significantly and led to our batch...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

DSFS to release enqueues in a timely manner

DSFS holds excl enqueues on datasets for minutes at a time.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

SMPE Output in XML/JSON

Exporting in a format such as JSON/XML would allow for users to read in the SMPE output and manipulate the information to build a more automated process.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

zCX - Externalize failure information to the joblog

Hello, zCX generates FFDC files when a problem is experienced and in the above case zCX restarted. There is no indication of the nature of the problem in the joblog, just that FFDC dumps were captured and zCX was restarted. We have to open a case ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 0 Future consideration

Sysplex Distributor decisions monitoring

We consider to implement new settings of sysplex distributor for WAS and DDF workloads. According to manuals, in DISTRIBUTED mode it cooperates with WLM, which assigns weights to each DVIPA network address separately. https://www.ibm.com/support/k...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

JES2 policy editor

JES2 policy is a new feature in z/OS 2.4 that allows system programmer to create JES2 job preprocessing and post processing other than using exits. However, JES2 policy is in form of JSON. It would be more user friendly to design the JES2 policy w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

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