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Simplify syntax for IDCAMS

Allow for an simplified syntax of IDCAMS commands No need for end of line continuation characters '-' or '+'. A statement (such as DEFINE, ALTER) would end when a new one begins. New END-statement syntax (END-DEFINE, END-ALTER) to signify the end ...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Add timestamp to message IZUG024I in zosmf server joblog stdout

Adding timestamp to message IZUG024I in zosmf server joblog stdout can help user easyly idetified the server startup ended time.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

Add parm to increase SORTIN and SORTOUT buffers to improve reading and writing throughput

DFSORT's ability to read and write SORTIN and SORTOUT files appears restricted enough to impact the throughput of both Standard files and Striped files. For SORTIN large Striped files can be read 4 times faster by OPTIONs COPY or EASYTRIEVE. CPU u...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 3 Not under consideration

Operlog should write more than a single MDB to a logblock to allow connecting of multiple MDBS for long multi-line messages

OPERLOG currently only writes a single Message Data Block (MDB) to a logblock for the OPERLOG logstream. When attempting to display OPERLOG in hardcopy format, know applications like IEAMDBLG, SDSFLOG and ISFLOG read single logblocks containing si...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Not under consideration

Use Multi thread when transferring an object

I have a dedicated network for using S3. When i have to transfer a hudge file the transfer took a long time and doesn't fully utilize the dedicated network. The idea is to use multi threading when the customer had big file to transfer.
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Not under consideration

LE: Allow TERMTHDACT option that combines UAONLY with MSG behavior, *without* the CEEDUMP clutter

Please provide an option for TERMTHDACT which provides the CICS transaction dump that UAONLY provides, along with the CESE output that MSG provides, without the copious CEEDUMP output that DUMP provides. In other words, we ONLY want the CICS trans...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Any OSPROTECT processing should be offloaded on zIIP processor

When enabling the OSPROTECT=1 attirbute, any additional workload should not be executed on CP but on a zIIP processor
over 1 year ago in z/OS / General 1 Not under consideration

Back reference SYSOUT DD JES data set

Kindly refer to PMR case number TS014415883 This will be useful when second step can back reference to the SYSPRINT from first step, done some filtering and produce the desire output in second step, whilst still able to see the actual output in fi...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Not under consideration

Make DAE - ADYSET00 possible to supress SYSUDUMP the same way as SYSMDUMP can be supressed today.

When we get problems in our Environment with a lot of SYSUDUMPs produced and filling up our SPOOL volumes. Then we would like to have the possibility that DAE - ADYSET00 can supress all our SYSUDUMP's. This can avoid that all our spool volumes to ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

DSFS Enhance Createparm

The DSFS CreateParm is fine (to a point) but needs an option to Delete a created hlq.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

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