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Using DSFS to delete PDSE member generation uses wrong STOW

Using DSFS to delete a pdse member with member generations incorrectly uses the STOW type D instead of DG. Thus deleting the base member while leaving all member generations as orphans.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 3 Future consideration

Espansion problem on DB2 table allocated on Storage group with available free space

DB2 for z/OS does not elect to reuse the space that it freed up on the first volume of multivolume vsam dat set.DFSMS will not and cannot know it is available for reuse.Since the data set is a Linear Data Set, it is up to the application to determ...
about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands(Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in Software instance tool, so that the Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task.

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands listed below (Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in the Software instance tool, so that Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task. This wil...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Not under consideration

Display tagging information for files on z/OS UNIX Directory List ISPF applications.

ISPF applications File Manager HFS Browse/Edit and Udlist (3.17) should display the tagging information like a ls -lT shell command. Example: t IBM-1047 T=on t ISO8859-1 T=on I'm using enhanced ASCII support and needing to tag text files and find ...
9 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Not under consideration

Externalize the new counter for TCP connection out of order segments

Per IBM support: with Comm Server 2.5 the counter for TCP connection out of order segments is available at the individual TCP connection level. From IBM support it is not yet externalized or available for customer consumption. Currently the only i...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

New Parameter: Automatically terminate FTP data session with termination of FTP control session

Provide a parameter to indicate that an FTP dataconnection should be terminated if the associated control connection isterminated.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

DSECT for SHCDS Listrecovery output or DSECTs for SHCDS-Commands outputs for processing/examining the output via program. If this is not possible, then please give a hint via SMPE (Usermod, Hold...) or somewhat else when the layout of this output changes.

We are using RLS in CICS and we use EXCI interface for quiescing and unquiescing Datasets in CICS, for further batch processing of RLS-datasets. To determine then recovery-status of the datasets which need to be quiesced via EXCI, we use IDCAMS-pr...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Provide a percentage status of DFHSM expirebv process completion

Currently, the expirebv process for our dfhsmuss (file mode host) environment runs for days and would be nice to see a percentage completion IE, 25%, 50%, 77% completed.
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Planned for future release

Make CEETBCK statement_id parameter optional for performance reasons

In order to populate the statement_id parameter, CEETBCK needs to invoke the debug infrastructure, which can present considerable overhead if CEETBCK is frequently used ie. in non-error contexts. Passing a null pointer (OMITTED in the case of COBO...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Future consideration