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Core Infrastructure

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Regular expression $ matching needs improvement

The string ISPF passes to the regular expression matcher appears to include trailing blanks, even when those trailing blanks are not logically there. ie. the blanks are there as an artifact of the editor (VB datasets) or would not generally be the...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Defrag should leave / add freespace to PDS with 0 Secondary extents

When DSS is defragmenting a volume, add an optional parameter FREE%(nn default 10, nn default 10) that applies to DSORG=PO,SPACE=(qty,(prm,0,dir)) that the resulting DSORG=PO have nn% free space and nn% free directory blocks). When DSS is defragme...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

Fail the RDEFINE and RALTER command is the STDATA user ID and group does not exist

If a non existent user ID or group is specified in the STDATA segment parm when executing the RDEFINE or RALTER command, the command should fail. Currently the command is allowed to proceed - a warning message is pushed out to the user informing t...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Add remote file name to SYSTCPSM SMF119 NMI FTP record

Only the mainframe side file name of the FTP file transfer is available in the SMF119 record provided to the SYSTCPSM NMI interface. If the file is being renamed on the FTP file transfer, the remote file name is not available in the SMF record
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Request to allow HSM TAPEREPLACE to support Flashcopy SE Dump tapes

Environment: z/OS 1.13, DFSMShsm 1.13, DB2 10, DS8700 with Flashcopy SE, TS7720 VTS. Our plan was to issue the DB2 "BACKUP SYSTEM" command to flashcopy our three production DB2 subsystems. The BACKUP SYSTEM command then issues DFSMShsm FRBACKUP co...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Not under consideration

z/OS NFS replication support

z/OS NFS client doesn't support the NFS replication as described in chapter 6 of RFC 3530.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Not under consideration

FTping failing to transfer to GDG file

Having FTP job's failing when ftping to GDG files.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Comm Server PAGENT - Add modify commands for tracing

Add a feature to PAGENT to permit CtraceClearText and Trace settings to be dynamically changed for a particular TTLSConnectionAction. This feature would require a SAF resource to permit execution of these commands.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 4 Not under consideration

Add FTP client option to stream tape datasets

I recently learned of the FTP server option TAPEREADSTREAM which allows faster retrieve speeds of tape datasets from a z/OS FTP server. We FTP tape datasets from a z/OS FTP client to remote FTP servers, but the transfers have to be initiated from ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

DFSMSdss: Allow RENAME w/More/Less Quali

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00070656User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS98019Title: DFSMSdss: Allow RENAME w/More/Less Qualifiers When Masking UsedSubmitted By: US359049Originators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Barbara McDonald/San ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

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