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This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Allow ACS installation exits to be reloaded without an IPL

According to the manual and validated by our testing the ACS installation exits (IGDACSDC, IGDACMDC and IGDACSSC) can only be refreshed with an IPL. These exits should be controlled by the Dynamic exits facility and one should be able to modify an...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Delivered

Add stepname and step number fields to SMF Type 42.6 records

There are times when data set accesses don't result in Type 14/15 or 64/65 records. The SMF type 30 records for the associated job show CPU and I/O info at the step level, but they don't include the data set name. The 42.6 records show the jobname...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 4 Delivered

DFSMS ACS variable to recognise a ZFS

It would be helpful if there was an ACS variable to recognise a ZFS dataset in either the &DSNTYPE (as for HFS) or &RECORG read only variables. ZFS datasets have certain characteristics that need particular kind of management. For example ...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Delivered

Enable DADSM exit to allow a forced EOV condition

For client enforcing strict allocation controls it can be beneficial to force dataset allocation to specific pools with specific allocations. This level of enforcement will minimize fragmentation, reduce storage administrator intervention and yiel...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Delivered

Dynamic update/change ACS Installation Exits

Submitted By: 3100012R4F #48Submitted Date: 2016-06-14, Submitted By: Edward J Petka, Jr.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Delivered