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DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS

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LISTCAT CATALOG to produce CSV output

Hi, The output of LISTCAT CATALOG should be very efficient to be produced in csv format as well. Having all the information in one line per entry, a system programmer can extract easier the provided information. Kid regards Konstantinos
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

SMF record to report for rolled off GDGs

GDGs that roll off the base should have an SMF record to show that it was removed. Currently we have no way of showing audit when and who caused the GDG to be removed. DASD datasets do have other SMF record types to show the delete, but CA1 tapes ...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Functionality already exists

LISTCAT dates should provide dates in ISO8601 format YYYY-MM-DD

LISTCAT output dates (creation, expiration or lbackup) of an entry are only displayed in Julian format. It should be very useful an additional ISO8601 format as well. Kind regards Konstantinos
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Future consideration

IEA370I - Add CONSOLE command to display active MASTCAT (e.g. F CATALOG,MASTCAT)

For auditing purposes it is important to be able to identify the active master catalog. Currently during IPL IEA370I message is issued to display the master catalog, but the message comes too early to be found in SYSLOG or captured by basic automa...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

Allow the use of zOS system symbols in catalog entries

When defining a catalog entry, you can specify VOLUME(&SYM1) for example but not (NAME(HLQ.&SYM1..LLQ)). For that you need a catalog entry then an alias with SYMBOLICRELATE. There are instances where we would find it useful to have a symbo...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Slayte AHA Test Aug 26

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 08/26/2024 Submitter Name: Slayte Admin USER Submitter Email: admin@slayte.com Description: Test
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

CLONE master catalog ,using ibm utilities, to an alternate name with no internal updates.

The option to switch from one master catalog to another.... staging for future ipls.
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Describe the catalog mapping information for capacity estimation

When we migrated the sequential data sets to SMS environment, the user catalog ran out of space, and many batch jobs were ABEND. This was due to an increase in the size of catalog entries due to the use of a maximum of 59 for the Volume Count of ...
11 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

DEFINE PAGESPACE Resilliancy to ensure page space clusters are formatted completely

This resilliency item would need to be implemented under IDCAMS, Catalog, and RSM. An IDCAMS DEFINE PAGESPACE command is a unique operation that involves a DEFINE CLUSTER and Format under the covers in order to produce a useable Pagespace for RSM ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Have IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME process whole VSAM SPHERE's

It would be very useful if a new optional SPHERE parameter could be included for an IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME of VSAM datasets so the rename function is applied to the whole sphere associated with the base cluster, or at least it's Data and Index Compo...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

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