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    Increase througput when sending data to S3 cloud

    We experience very poor performance when sending data dfsmsdss cda towards S3 cloud (max ~13MB/sec) Increasing the chunk size parts doesn't really help, because the current design of dfsmsdss cda does not allow a continuous flow of data streaming ...
    11 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

    Via the ISPF panels when using the recover option after you select DSN it would be nice to carry the PDS name forward to the member selection screen

    You would be able to verify that indeed you have selected the correct dsn without having the backout of the screen and back to member list.
    23 days ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

    The ability for Change Tracker zosmf comparison be able to do not only backup to current comparisons but to do Backup to backup comparisons without creating a recover file to do compare.

    When multiple individuals update the same member , in parmlib for example, and one of the 4 updates for that IPL makes an error it would be nice to note when change error was actually made . This would result in quicker recovery than visually look...
    24 days ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

    Package CBPDO to enable download and product installation through ZOSMF

    Simplifies CBPDO installation for z/OS system programmers. Reduces manual SMP/E steps, HOLDDATA management errors.
    25 days ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

    Provide keyword support to suppress generation of TITLES and LEGEND when running ISMF in batch

    When running batch ISMF/NAVIQUEST using ACBJBAOB, would like to have keyword support to be able to suppress the generation of TITLES and/or LEGEND in the output (especially when sending the report to a file) which is then subsequently used as inpu...
    26 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 1 Future consideration

    Recover data sets from full volume dumps on TCT

    To be able to recover a single data set from a full volume dump on TCT would be a nice enhancement. A use case would be Db2 System Backup that uses DFSMS Copy Pools and gives Db2 the possibility to recover a single table space by extracting the re...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

    Support for backup/recover using TCT

    Like the support for migrate/recall using TCT it would be a good idea to have that possibility for bakup/recover using TCT.
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

    Enable copy of TKDS keystore in ICSF virtual storage to be dynamically refreshed

    With reference to the case that I raised recently, TS021044974, I was advised by IBM that TKDS keystore in ICSF virtual storage can only be refreshed from TKDS VSAM by shutting down and restart ICSF started task. There is no option from an ICSF ad...
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Future consideration

    OGET and OPUT convert to/from EBCDIC

    Allow OGET (copy from USS file to MVS dataset) to convert to EBCDIC (code page 1047). Add a new parm "TO1047" to perform this similiar to OCOPY. For OPUT add parm "FROM1047" to convert to ASCII (code page 037)
    about 1 month ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

    Please add the message IGD17162I to the Syslog/Operlog.

    Background: We want to use Optools/SystemAutomation to quickly obtain an overview of all datasets allocations that trigger this message, even though the job ends with RC=00. IGD17162I RETURN CODE (12) REASON CODE (5F01083F) RECEIVED FROM COMPRESSI...
    about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

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