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DFSMS PDS/PDSE

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Unable to delete member in PDSE 100% utilized

See: PMR
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

Share PDSE cross sysplex

Enhancement of PDSEs to be able to be shared cross sysplex. Currently, PDSE could not be shared outside a SYSPLEX.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

IEBCOPY PDSE Member Generations Unload

IEBCOPY supports the ability to unload/reload a PDS to/from a sequential dataset. This is very useful for backup and transport. With the new GENS=ALL support for PDSE member generations the user expects to be able to do the unload/reload for their...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

Disallow edit/save of PDSE generated members

Provide the ability to disallow editing the non-zero PDSE member versions.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Future consideration

IBMPDSE should issue Messages to joblog as well as SYSPRINT

When running the IBMPDSE utility against a Dataset, there are 4 Return codes that can be set 00 (X'00') SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION.04 (X'04') THE INPUT PDSE IS SLIGHTLY DAMAGED. PROCESSING CONTINUES.08 (X'08') THE INPUT PDSE IS CORRUPTED. THE UTILITY E...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

Improved usage reporting for PDSE Hiperspaces

Provide statistics on PDSE and PDSE1 Hiperpsace memory usage to help customers understand if they would benefit from additional meomory and if the data sets using the Hiperspaces are good candidates for caching. Currently, information is only prov...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

IEBCOPY Site Default for GENS=ALL

IEBCOPY should have a site wide default (parmlib) for GENS=ALL
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 0 Future consideration

Request to add more flexibility to PDSE Member Generations

This is an enhancement suggestion for the next version of PDSE libraries. With PDSE V2, you can retain multiple generations of members. This feature may have been added to close one of the remaining PDSE functionality gaps compared to regular PDS ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 3 Future consideration

IEBPDSE Report Enhancment

Enhance the IEBPDSE report to: 1. Move the DSName to the top of the report 2. Add information on what processing parms were specified
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

IEBPDSE enhancement for data pages overlaid

Our customer encountered JES2 ABEND because HASJES20 was corrupted after the PDSE had been copied from the test system. Contents in 4 data pages(just 16KB) were certainly different from original. But IEBPDSE utility cannot check out. Our customer ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 5 Future consideration

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