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Support for GA2 to GA1 driver downgrade option

While planing to upgrade z14 GA1 to GA2 driver, the customer asks IBM to prepare guaranteed contingency revert plan in the case of GA2 driver causes the customer's production system failure. Unlike MCL apply, GA2 driver upgrade includs lots of new...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 1 Delivered

Prepare a single-phase power feature code for the IBM Z power supply

Japanese data center facilities are mainly single-phase. When IBM Z is selected, we would like you to prepare a single-phase power supply mechanism that can be installed in the existing equipment environment.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

Virtual IDAA on Z SSC LPAR bringing online reserved IFLs

We are participating in a proof-of-concept for IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator. Our virtual IDAA SSC image profile has seven shared IFLs initial and 16 reserved (there are 13 physically installed on our z15 - we generally overdefine for future growt...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 5 Delivered

A request for zEDC documents

We are considering the installation of zEDC in our customer's environment. Our customer asked us how zEDC work when data compression requests exceed the capability of zEDC cards installed. We started investigation, but there was no document descri...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

Increase the max engine limit from 256 to higher number

System: z/OSActor: Please increase the max engine limit from 256 to higher number on HMC for a lparDescription:Currently the max engine limit is set to 256 which includes sum of initial and reserved cp and ziip which is again multiplied by 2. We n...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Delivered

z Systems with multiple CPC books/drawers will automatically restart using health other book(s) when shudown by book failure.

New function we require is bellow: zSystems can automatically be restarted when zSystems shutdown caused from its book troubles.When zSystems shutdown caused from book troubles , it is not automatically restarted and cannot run applications.So we ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered

PPSG0113-1572 More Granularity on the CP processor assignment in a CEC

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: guceda@produban.comSubmitters Company: Produban-Santander Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PPSG0113-1572 More Granularity on the CP processor asignment in a CECHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 7 Delivered

Hiperdispatch: provide parmfile for manual intervention

Please provide an PARMLIB Member (maybe DIAGxx) for Manual adjustment of HIPERDISPATCH Settings. We are a rel. small z/OS shop. We have an 705 with more that 10 running LPARs. 2 PROD LPARs are rel. big...the rest rel. small from point of share. Th...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 4 Delivered

Reduce CPU overhead of SET RDEV command when z/VM Dynamic I/O Reconfig on LinuxONE

zLinux on z / VM is running integrated DB server with 24 x 365. When adding DASD etc., I use dynamic I / O Reconfig function.In order to connect the new DASD to the z / VM system running at 24 x 365 and recognize it, the SET RDEV command is execut...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 3 Delivered

Provide pre- and post-zEDC byte counts in SMF Type 23 records

<p>Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSMVSE14006: Voting Priority=2.4.</p><br /><p> </p><br /><p> </p><br /><p> </p><br /><p>Installations would l...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / General/Miscellaneous 2 Delivered