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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

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...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 1 Planned for future release

Honor the MC attributes for TCT using 'HMIG' command

Currently if you use 'HMIGRATE' command, all attributes of the 'Management Class' concerning 'Transparent Cloud Tiering' are not honored.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 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...
over 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 ...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

Looking for a DFSMS/HSM exit point of RACF Control

We would like an SMS/HSM exit or RACF control that would prevent an inadvertent activation of an ACS routine that, for example, would delete all files 1 or more days old because a storage manager mistakenly sets the rule for 1 day instead of 10 da...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 4 Planned for future release

Enhance ISITMGD to provide number of gens for PDSE V2 with member generations

The ISITMGD (IS IT ManaGeD) macro provides an indicator for PDSE V1 or V2, and an indicator if the PDSE V2 supports member generations, but does not provide the number of member generations. This interface should be enhanced to provide the number ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Planned for future release

Fixing the CICS-LE Recovery Loops

When there is an overlay of either an LE or CICS control block in a CICS environment, CICS & LE can get into a loop trying to abend/recover from the failure.
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Planned for future release

PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION monitor *MASTER* address space

Check PFA_PRIVATE_STORAGE_EXHAUSTION should monitor *MASTER* storage exhaustion.Usually when the master address space storage exhausts an IPL is needed to recover. This would not be necessary if PFA had alerted on the gradual storage inflation cau...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Predictive Failure Analysis 1 Planned for future release

IDCAMS: DEFINE RECATALOG for multivolume dataset with volcount > 2 in order to the filesequence and all volumes

Recatalog the multivolume dataset in wrong order and or less volumes the dataset is corrupted but the IDCAMS has returncode=0.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Planned for future release

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