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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories BCP_XCF/XES
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 17, 2026

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Monitoring Initial Size of Coupling Facility Structures

It was noticed a problem during a Coupling Facility outage when was necessary to move structures from one CF to another CF.  The rebuild/recovery process  was not completed sucessfully because the INITSIZE of a WMQ Structure  was smaller than the required size to be processed.

It´s required that XCF Laboratory make an enhancement in the product to send an alert when this condition is reached (Allocated SIZE turns greater than the INITSIZE). The objective is to monitor these events to make changes at the policy or directly at the structure previously, before an CF outage or a needed rebuild/recovery process due any failure.

The benefit of this request is to provide greater service availability in case of CFs outage, help to debug and recover the systems.

 

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  • Guest
    Jun 17, 2026

    great!

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