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DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS

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Prevent wildcard searches on HLQ

When wildcard searches are used on large(r) systems, enq delays / decrease in performance is experienced on catalog processing that impact critical production business processes.Wildcard searches causes higher processing time for example when Db2 ...
21 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Better support for multiple master catalogs in a sysplex

There are a growing number of system data sets which have sysplex scope, but which are VSAM. When z/OS sysplexes are configured with a single master catalog shared across all sysplex LPARs this does not present any issue. However, such a sysplex i...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

TSO DELETE should delete the PDSE base member and all generations

TSO Delete currently deletes the PDSE base member (generation 0) and leaves generations -1 and beyond as orphan/ghost members. Delete should delete the base and all generations - with an appropriate message See old idea ZOS-I-3593 this is a fairly...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Future consideration

IDCAMS PRINT translate lowercase EBCDIC characters

The output of an IDCAMS PRINT job includes both the raw data in printed hexadecimal and also in a "translated" section that displays capital English and special characters from the EBCDIC code page. In the current environment, it would be very hel...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

IDCAMS PRINT to allow for codepage input

The output of an IDCAMS PRINT job includes both the raw data in printed hexadecimal and also in a "translated" section that displays capital English and special characters from the EBCDIC code page. There are many international situations where al...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

DSECT for SHCDS Listrecovery output or DSECTs for SHCDS-Commands outputs for processing/examining the output via program. If this is not possible, then please give a hint via SMPE (Usermod, Hold...) or somewhat else when the layout of this output changes.

We are using RLS in CICS and we use EXCI interface for quiescing and unquiescing Datasets in CICS, for further batch processing of RLS-datasets. To determine then recovery-status of the datasets which need to be quiesced via EXCI, we use IDCAMS-pr...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Add a volume parameter to Some MODIFY CATALOG Commands

Sysplex-wide commands like MODIFY CATALOG,RECOVER require a catalog name to be specified, but these commands do not support a volume parameter. This does not allow for catalogs of the same name that reside on different volumes, so the wrong catalo...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

ADD STGADMIN profile to allow EXPORT of catalog without the need to have ALTER access on catalog name

ADD STGADMIN profile to allow EXPORT of catalog without the need to have ALTER access on catalog name
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Add functionality to report PDSE version 1 or 2 in DCOLLECT

PDSE v2 data sets were introduced in zOS v2.1. Yet I have no means to monitor and report existence of PDSE v2 data sets.
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Add Master Catalog enqueue (or something) to prevent unexpected master catalog delete

We roll out maintenance through a rolling IPL process. Each maintenance IPL uses a rotating cycle of 2 or 3 sysres sets (call them A, B and possibly C), of which the oldest is built with the new maintenance each time. Part of this process is to al...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

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