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Core Infrastructure

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Need to remove 16Mb limitation for REXX variable.

We need to manage data by rds tables in System Automation for z/OS. In particular We need to read and processes by batch jobs, the data stored in the rds tables that are into system automation.But there is a limit around 16Mb. This number, 16Mb, i...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Allow HSM automatic dump to DASD

HSM automatic dump currently only allows writing the full-volume dumps to tape. It should also support writing full-volume dumps to disk.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

DFHSM volume selection for CIDS allocation needs to check for contiguous space availability

This item requests DFHSM to check for enough contiguous space when selecting a volume for allocation of the CIDS. During the processing of the FRBACKUP command, one catalog information data set CIDS is created for each copy pool version. Each CIDS...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Not under consideration

Provide SET IGGCAT=xx to dynamically change catalog options

Allowing a SET IGGCAT=xx would allow a user to dynamically change catalog options without having to restart the catalog address space (CAS). SSMVSE14003
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Planned for future release

z/OS Web Enablement - JSON Parser GNUV Fails on COBOL COMP-2 Floating Point Numbers

COBOL is not currently able to use the HWTJGNUV callable service for JSON numbers that are not integers..therefore...this is a Request for Enhancement (RFE) against the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit to be able to handle floating point numbers...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

Port the tree command to Unix System Services

Either port the tree command or create an equivalent command for Unix System Services
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

RFE for DS QLIB distlib DELETE

When moving an IBM tape cluster from one tape grid to another in the same plex, have found that with a one IODF Activate that a cluster will be defined to two composite (2 grids). By expanding the current DS QLIB,composite,DELETE to expand to usin...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 1 Future consideration

ISPF Regular Expressions to work in BROWSE

Add regular expression functionality to ISPF BROWSE in zOS v2.1 and up.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Add Dataset support to the SDBM backend

Don't see that recomendation from https://ibmsecurity.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/AMDS-I-334 that new RFE has been opened.But we're interested of same feature to handle racf dataset profiles from SDBM backend. z/OS 2.4 has added DATASET support to the R_A...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

DFSMSdss RESTORE should not be checking for any source devices when IMPORT is specified

The DFSMSdss RESTORE command should not perform any checks for the source volumes when the IMPORT parameter is specified.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

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