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Update NAF cache threshold dynamically

KLSOPTNF is an excellent tool for investigating which sessions are being started and by whom, and is a lot faster than using SMF data from tape for the NAF reporting tool. Recently we upgraded our largest Supersession instances to v310, and after ...
about 5 hours ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

Support RMTCMD IP for the Blog, CANZLOG and labelled commands

We are trying to run our Netview RMTCMD setup with SNA being turned off and using only RMTCMD IP mode. The BLOG command is coded to use only RMTCMD SNA using the keyword LU= and not the DOMAIN= and IP= keyword that can allow the RMTCMD over IP. Th...
1 day ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Submitted

GDPS dual legs 3 sites Metro Mirror extended to be 4 sites so as to attain HA in the DR data center as is in the Production data center

This extension will allow the regular swap between Production and DR data centers because both will have HA. Regular swaps and long stays in the DR center are supposed to be a requirement of DORA
2 months ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Create a table that presents the value of MSUs consumed exactly equal to field N7 of the SCRT

Field N7 of the SCRT presents the number of MSUs consumed per LPAR that will be paid to IBM under the TFP contract. In order to better price products and anticipate the amount to be paid, we need to know the quantity of MSUs consumed to carry out ...
13 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Fixing and adding additional fields in DWC metrics

Hi Team, Currently, After activating the configuration file TWSZOSMetricsConfig.properties, DWC metric portal is exposing job metric values. But, It is showing job number value in the job name field. We have checked with vendor and they mentioned ...
about 3 hours ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

Add bootstrap loading of JWTs in cache and also enable pro-active refresh of bootstrapped JWTs

To decrease latency while procuring JWT tokens when a API request is made to z/OS Connect, its better to implement below logic & provide it as a configurable choice:* Create a list of OAUTH claim requests in a file that will be read by z/OS Co...
about 4 hours ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

zTPFDF should provide an "aging" report similar to VERIFY chain counts, to show the time interval since the prime was last updated.

As a database administrator, I want to know how long it has been since a given sub-file was last updated so that stale, obsolete and no longer needed data can be more easily identified. The idea is to Enhance CRUISE to provide “Aging” statistics i...
about 19 hours ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Under review

zTPFDF should maintain a count of chain blocks in the prime block trailer

As a database administrator, I need the ability to quickly determine how many chains or data blocks a TPFDF sub-file has, so that I can more easily trouble-shoot excessive I/O, queuing, or contention problems. The chains would be counted when a PA...
about 19 hours ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Under review

DEFV Batch Function

Is it possible to include the SMS parameters such as DATACLAS, MGMTCLAS and STORCLAS to the output? It would make much easier to create similar datasets.
about 22 hours ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support Korean Code Page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator

Implement support for the Korean code page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator when using a DBCS or SOSI compatible session type. Extension is to support all valid code pages. Using IDz 16.0.3 the Korean code page is not supported in the 'Code page'...
8 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 0 Submitted

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