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Core Infrastructure

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Eliminate IEBCOPY Restriction: Allow Multiple Input PDSs to be Sequentially Unloaded in a Single COPY/COPYGROUP Operation

Requirement: IEBCOPY should allow multiple input partitioned data sets to be unloaded when the objective is to produce a single output file in sequential format. This restriction is undocumented in the utility manual and can only be found in the m...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

Add hardware-level utilization information for PCIE cards

Copied from old SHARE Requirements system SSSHARE012857: Voting Priority=2.9 +4=2 +3=4 +2=9 +1=6 abstain=2 Priority=2.1 (Please ignore the other vote of 0.0) Currently, the RMF PCIE XML report provides information about the use of a PCIE card for ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

Increase TAPEVOL facility class limit to 50k

Current TAPEVOL facility class used by HSM tapes is limited to 10k and we can have 10 suffixes if following volser ranges as numbers. Currently on my system, we have breached this limit and working on moving from TAPEVOL to DATASET facility class....
11 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

lightweight zosmf restfiles/ds option for faster minimal dataset list with attributes

Current X-IBM-Attributes options for the zosmf /restfiles/ds API enable retrieval of just the dataset names, dataset+volume, and a "base" option which returns all information consistent with ISPF 3.4. The base option can easily cause timeouts if t...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Network Analyzer Performance Improvement

When importing 'large' SMF datasets with ~200m records, the zOSMF NCA Java reads all records to filter filter Type 119 records relevant. In sample this are around 2m records. This process runs for more than 4h (wasting CPU resources), which is ver...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under 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
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 2 Future consideration

REALLOCATE TEST should provide more screening for potential structure duplexing issues.

REALLOCATE TEST needs to provide additional screening for potential structure duplexing issues. For example, if a REALLOCATE is performed while a structure is in simplex mode with DUPlEX(ENABLED) . and only failed-persistent structures, the REALLO...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_XCF/XES 0 Future consideration

LE to surface correct information when 31/64 bit code is incorretly used via DLL

* if 31/64 bit code in intermixed in a non supported manner (DLL)* message "EDC5206S DLL module name too long" is shown * The correct information (CEE3587S A call was made to a function in the AMODE 31 DLL //FU018J from an AMODE 64 caller)surfaces...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP command optimize the default block size for PS-E.

Now DFSMSdss DUMP function makes a output dataset to DASD with half track block size (default). If using 3390 type DASD, default block size is 27998. When output dataset is Extended format (PS-E) , the system adds a 32-byte suffix to each block. S...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

SMTP exit capability to modify MAIL values for anything passing through SMTP

Currently the smtpexit can only be used to accept or reject email. My request would allow the exit to alter, not the content of the mail, but the values used to determine who the mail is originating from such as "MAIL FROM:<" values.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

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