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Core Infrastructure

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Provide Creation Time in ISPF 3.2 for data sets created with EATTR=OPT

Hello, in support of the new Format 9 DSCBs created for data sets defined with EATTR=OPT (or VSAM) on an EAV, ISPF 3.2 displays the creating jobname and creating stepname for the requested data set. But, there's a third information contained in F9...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

For space (Sx37) abends, report nn VOLUMES nnn EXT nnnnnn TRK used.

When you have a space abend, it is hard to determine how much space you had allocated if the dataset is deleted. Giving a count of number of volumes, extents, and tracks would be a great help. Listing each volume with number of extents and tracks ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 3 Future consideration

Add option BACKUP to HMIG command.

Add option BACKUP to command HMIG that backs up a DSN to a HSM backup volume if none is present, then migrates the dataset to a migrate volume.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Not under consideration

Configuration Assistant: Ability to copy objects from one backing store to another.

Ability to copy objects (Stacks, rules, groups, traffic descriptions etc.) from one backing store to another. Note: this requirement split out from DW RFE 86000
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Not under consideration

Additional variable support in Configuration Assistant

Additional variable support. Especially the ability to supply a variable address group name - such as $LPAR_Group - where $LPAR would be resolved by a Stack Symbol. note: this requirement was split out from DW RFE 86000
over 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

passwd() program should provide better messages for error conditions

Client has several users of the z/OS operation system server environment who utilize the the server's database, messaging and web services facilities without having a Telnet 3270 client on their workstation. The users connect to the server, from a...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

Improvements to Policy Agent

An expired key causes connection failures to DB2. Looking to improve resiliency within AT-TLS implementation
about 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 6 Not under consideration

DFSMSdfp Use RACF to protect and control the use of DFSMSdfp dataclass

Datasets are allocated with different characteristics. To prevent allocation of dataset with wrong characteristics we protect certain dataclasses against common use. We basically only control it by using the read-only variables &GROUP and &am...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under consideration

Increase the number of jobs that can be traced via an IDAVDTxx parmlib trace request

During a VSAM case TS004219577 I had to run multiple VSAM traces to collect trace entries for seperate address spaces, due to the IDAVDT00 parmlib entry being unable to support more than one job in the jobname parameter. If this were increased to ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 0 Future consideration

Enrich message ICH70001I with the number of attempts.

Asis: ICH70001I userid LAST ACCESS AT hh:mm:ss ON www, month, day, 19yy This message is issued when the Resource Access Facility (RACF) RACINIT service is invoked to initialize RACF processing for a new address space. The first time this user ("us...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

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