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DSS BUILDSA support for CD/DVD.

We have z/OS 1.12 and z/OS 1.13 and just migrated from old standalone 3490 tapes to IBM tape library TS3500 using 4tbyte tapes. We are getting ready to build our DFSMSdss Stand-Alone restore and was looking for alternative options to store the IPL...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 5 Future consideration

a way to have ZOSMF workflow Jobs unique names

There should be a way,a variable, a symbolic, that Customer can use in their JOBCARD for Jobname,where the jobs generated from the workflow, once the jobcard information is propagated, .. each job will have the correct JOBNAME as intended by IBM.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Order/Distr/Install 2 Future consideration

Changing "PRI/SEC/DIR BLKS" during a Deployment operation in z/OSMF Software Management

Using the CustomPac ISPF Dialogs, we previously had the ability to change the dataset allocations for PDS/ZFS datasets shipped via ServerPac to allow for local growth, removal of secondaries & increase of dir blocks. As zOS 2.5 is now shipped ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS General/Unknown 2 Future consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP & RESTORE without data

Allow DFDSS DUMP & RESTORE to run with a 'NO DATA' option so that all the selected dataset attributes are DUMP'd but without any data. And then the RESTORE function should have an option to allocate the source datasets within any DUMP (whether...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 4 Future consideration

Add missing data points for RMF III workload reports - MPL, SSCHRT and Delays

We are able to use RMF PP (or DDS) to check MPL, SSCHRT and Delays(IO, MPL, Q and AUX) for workloads(for service classes)- but couldn't find same values from RMF III. It would be beneficial to have same type/format of data points for RMF III as pr...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 1 Future consideration

JES2 - Improve reaction to PROCLIB moves and Open/Close

In the above IBM Case we described a problem on one of our customer's system, whereby a PROC(00) data set was moved by the customer to a new volume and the catalogue entry adapted (DELETE & DEFINE NONVSAM). We do realise this is not a good thi...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

As in RFE ID 141306 suggested by IBM Systems Developer, I'll raise a RFE also for the z/OS Hyperswap component. z/OS Hyperswap should prevent a planned HyperSwap if a concurrent copy session is active. An unplaned HyperSwap should be possible of c...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Add Client/Server role indicator into ZERT SMF 119 Subtype 11 Records

The SMF 119 Subtype 11 record (ZERT Detail) does not have any indcation of whether z/OS is the client or server for the connection. This indicator DOES exits in the SMF 119 Subtype 12 (ZERT Summary) records, fields SMF119SS_SAServer , SMF119SS_SAC...
10 months ago in z/OS / Communications Server 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF network configuration Assistant use cut/paste of multiple IP Addresses when creating Address Group in IPSEC policy

Ability to use notepad cut and paste to enter multiple ip addresses when creating an Address Group in ipsec policy gui interface of z/OSMF network configuration assistant.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

Removing IBM Supplied Security Rules

In an effort to reduce clutter on ZOSMF, on our Security Levels tab in Network configuration Assistant, we would like to request to remove all “IBM Supplied” Security rules. The rules are never used and we find that its presence leaves room for er...
10 months ago in z/OS / Encryption Facility 0 Future consideration

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