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RMM Retention Method Expdt Abend handling

For Tapes that are using retention method VRSEL there is an abend handling routine that is used when a job abends and the dataset and tapes are cleaned up prior to the rerun of the job. However with tapes using retention method EXPDT there is no s...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Planned for future release

BLDL to PDSE need to return RC=08 at I/O error instead of ABEND212

PDSE data sets are used in IMS Online environment and issue BLDL, FINE, READ, CHECK macros.DCB specify SYNAD exit and ABEND Exit. But BLDL to PDSE issues ABEND212 with DFS909I 212-00 instead of RC=08 at I/O error. When we used standard PDS, it ret...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 4 Planned for future release

Programmatically accessible output

Currently system programmers may need to check health check reports from multiple systems. Providing the output in a format such as JSON would allow them to consolidate and dashboard on the status of multiple systems much more easily.
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Healthchecker 1 Planned for future release

RMM catsynch verify error listing

PGM=EDGHSKP,PARM='CATSYNCH,VERIFY' takes a SVC dump.Unfortunately, you have to find out why!The cause seem to be orphaned "rename in Progress" data sets.RMM message data set contains Information:EDG2237E CATALOG SEARCH INTERFACE REQUEST FAILED RET...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Planned for future release

Create new "last login timestamp" attribute in LDAP for entries

RACF provides an attribute, LAST-ACCESS, which is mapped to racfLastAccess in SDBM which can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.glpa200/tivrff.htm#racfcf This searchable attribute returns th...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

ITDS LDAP Sever should not run in supervisor state while calling R_admin()

ITDS LDAP Server calls R_admin() in supervisor state.This results in ignoring the IRR.RADMIN.* profiles in class FACILITY. See "IBM Tivoli Directory Server Administration and Use for z / OS," SC23-6788,Chapter 17. Accessing RACF informationand"Sec...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Planned for future release

HILITE PLI - End-of-line Comment // support

My programming colleague is using the "//" end of line comment indicator. I think this was an enhancement with the 5.3 release of EPLI:The character // specifies that the rest of a line is a comment. See “Delimiters and operators” on page6. Actual...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Planned for future release

IEBCOPY Member Generations - Add/Merge option

With the new IEBCOPY CPYGRP GENS=ALL the REPLACE option will first delete the copy member and generations from the target and then perform the copy. That eliminates the member and generations in the target which is counter intuitive considering th...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Planned for future release

Prevent IEBGENER overlay of PDS or PDSE dataset

When using IEBGENER it is possible to forget to add a MEMBER NAME on the SYSUT2 which then corrupts the PDS or PDS/E. Sometimes you can recover but sometimes you cannot. It would be helpful if IEBGENER could TEST the dataset type on SYSUT2 and if ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

SRB enhancement to support CBU operations

Our customer activates CBU during IPL at DR site and they issue CONFIG CP ONLINE command to add reserved zIIP. They decided to exploit SRB functionality on new system to expect accelerated IPL on new system. When they tested CBU procedure on new s...
11 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Planned for future release

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