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Core Infrastructure

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Test Submission Disregard

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 07/24/2024 Submitter Name: Slayte Admin USER Submitter Email: admin@slayte.com Description: Test Submission Disregard
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Not under consideration

Test idea for SHARE 2

Please ignore this is a test
4 months ago in z/OS / sharetest 2 Not under consideration

Enhance LISTDSI to display number of generations for PDSE V2 with member generations

LISTDSI should be enhanced to display the number of member generations for a PDSE V2 file with member generation support.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 4 Future consideration

SMPE Output in XML/JSON

Exporting in a format such as JSON/XML would allow for users to read in the SMPE output and manipulate the information to build a more automated process.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

z/OSMF Software Deployment - Add new datasets to deployments

Unable to add customer specific "datasets" to a deployment
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

zfsadm shrink should provide a means to automatically specify -size without running aggrinfo or calculating from fsinfo

zfsadm shrink requires too much manual intervention to be useful. -size must be taken either from aggrinfo, or calculated from fsinfo, then manually added to the zfsadm shrink command. zfsadm shrink should provide a means to do this automatically ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 2 Future consideration

zfsadm shrink should provide means to mount R/O filesystem R/W, then switch back to R/O after zfsadm shrink completes

zfsadm shrink requires too much manual intervention to be useful. Forcing a user to manually remount the filesystem R/W, then remount it again as R/O is time-consuming and error prone. zfsadm shrink should provide a means to do this automatically....
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Future consideration

Add GEN as an option to LMMDISP

Add the GEN option which EDIT service has, to LMMDISP service too.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

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

Improve performance of ISPF LMDLIST Service

We have multiple applications that make use of the ISPF LMDLIST service with STATS(YES) to obtain a list of datasets and their attributes. The dataset list can contain numerous entries that has been observed exceeding 32,000 at times. Current LMDL...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

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