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Add a warning message when the Network Services Database rejects socket connections due to Max connection value

In order to more rapidly troubleshoot and resolve production network and connection issues, updating the TCP/IP Network Services Database code to issue a warning message to the console when the NSD limit rejects an inbound or outbound connection c...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Need VM relocation among z/VM compute nodes

To balance the workload among the compute nodes
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

Specified default Editor should be used for non extension data set

When a sequential data set that has no file extension is opened ona remote system, the zSystems LPEX Editor is used as defined application.Even when the zSystem Editor is defined as default editor for the filetype "*.*" (no extension), the extensi...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Export/import  across clusters (KVM)

Export/import across clusters (KVM)
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

Cinder ICIC CSI driver for OCP

Cinder ICIC CSI driver for OCP
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Security Groups logging

to log more security group info to be consulted on the ICIC console or exported to a log concentrator
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Network node HA

Network node HA
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

ALLDEPS request may lock the corrent plan and cause delays

We have occasionally problem with the query of predecessors (Panel EAASOPSP) : SELECTING APPLICATION OCCURRENCE AND OPERATION INFORMATION option 9.We have implemented the advised solution : a pop up panel reminding that the alldeps query is very (...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Reduce the about of CPU/MIPS used during zRTEMS startup

In environments with large numbers of nodes (8000+), when a z/OS RTEMS is started the RTEMS is measure to use 300-500 MIPS while establishing a HTEMS connection. During an IPL this is not an issue thanks to IPL BOOST, but when the zRTEMS needs res...
10 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

LPEX editor : new preference to save blank lines in a VB member of a PDSE as records with length 1

In our environment our PL/1 source libraries are PDSE libraries with RECFM=VB and LRECL=259 When we add a blank line to a member of such a library with the ISPF editor a record is created containing 1 blank (length 1) However when we add a blank l...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration