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Core Infrastructure

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SMS SCDS construct comparison tool

With the heavy focus on cyber resiliency, we are looking for a tool to compare SMS constructs between SCDSs--or between the active configuration and a new SCDS. We have excellent testing tools for ACS source code (with test cases and NaviQuest), b...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 5 Future consideration

Is IBM health check VSAMRLS_TVS_ENABLED still required under zOS v3.1 ?

Now that DFSMStvs is included in the base install of zOS v3.1, health check VSAMRLS_TVS_ENABLED excepts as it now finds the product installed but not enabled. I suspect the majority of zOS customers do not enable this now free product? so would ha...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 2 Under review

LE AMODE 31/64 interoperability environment: use of ILC in parallel threads in Java

We want to be able to use the Java batch framework for parallel processing on z/OS in the same way as on other operating systems.We need to execute the batch on z/OS when we have to call COBOL modules for business functionality. The opportunity to...
5 months ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CEEPIPI to reestablish lost condition handling environment

Language Environment Pre-Initialization Services are used to create a reusable runtime environment (RRE), run multiple run-time environments in one multi-tasking region, etc. CEEPIPI is the Language Environment version of the previous language-spe...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Allow the dynalloc text unit 8017 (Unix PATH) to be more than 255 characters long

Dynamic allocation limits the length of a Unix path name (for text unit 8017) to 255 characters, in spite of the fact that the text unit length field is 16 bits (max of 65535). This should be relaxed.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Future consideration

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

Remove / prior to 4 digit UCB Addresses on Mount Command

The z/OS Mount command syntax requires a / prior to a 4 digit UCB. The time has come to eliminate this requirement.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 4 Not under consideration

IFASMFDL RC=8 when error in LOGSTREAM

When there is an error when reading the LOGSTREAM, so that it is not safe that all requested data is present, the return code should be 8 instead of 4 because RC=4 indicate only a warning.RC=8 indicate an error. In our case we got a MSG 'IFA819I E...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Add a volume parameter to Some MODIFY CATALOG Commands

Sysplex-wide commands like MODIFY CATALOG,RECOVER require a catalog name to be specified, but these commands do not support a volume parameter. This does not allow for catalogs of the same name that reside on different volumes, so the wrong catalo...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

IDCAMS PRINT to allow for codepage input

The output of an IDCAMS PRINT job includes both the raw data in printed hexadecimal and also in a "translated" section that displays capital English and special characters from the EBCDIC code page. There are many international situations where al...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

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