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Provide Dynamic Allocation Capability for PDSE Member Generations

Provide a Dynamic Allocation (SVC 99) capability to access a member generation.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 2 Future consideration

add the substr function into ACS routines to simply SMS management for complex environment

I have been working with a customer who wants to obtain the subsystem ID for more generic filtlists and storage group assignments. Something like filtlist XXXSAP INCLUDE(DSN%%%U.**, 'ICF.DRPLEX.%%%SAP') EXCLUDE(DSN%%%%%.ARCHLOG1.**, DSN%%%%%.ARCHL...
12 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

Saving job output from Deployment Jobs in zOSMF Software Management

Currently, the zOSMF Deployment Jobs task has no capability to actually save the various job output(s) to a dataset.Can use the SDSF XDC command to capture the job output(s), which is a very manual process, but was wondering if it can all be drive...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Would like to see a function in ISMF that would display the SETSYS options currently in use

Currently if i do a F DFSMSHSM,Q SETSYS - it is a rather long listing. I might missing a setting like MIGRATION HOLDIt would be great if in ISMF, the current parms as they are set could be displayed in an ISPF Table (not to update, just to view)Th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Restore a pre allocated file and change the mgmgtclas

During restore of a file, if i want to change the mgmtclas, i need to delete the file to have the wanted mgmtclas by sysin DSS job (keyword mgmtclas). If the file already exist, i code REPLACE keyword but the mgmtclass is unchanged, MGMTCLAS remai...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

add z/NFS NFS version 4.1 support to properly replace z/SMB version 1

Currently we use z/SMB to mount z/OS file systems on our microsoft windows workstations.Because of a security hole in SMB V1 our security team wants to turn off the SMB V1 support on the workstations.Unfortunately zSMB is stabilized and will never...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 3 Future consideration

zERT SMF import from tape dataset

Currently, zERT can import SMF119 record only from DASD.All our SMF dumps are migrated to tape dataset after a couple of days later.We have to run JOB to copy tape SMF data to DASD then import into zERT.It will be helpful if we can import tape SMF...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Z/OS PARMDD to support started task parameter

Please have PARMDD support started task parameter
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance ISITMGD to provide number of gens for PDSE V2 with member generations

The ISITMGD (IS IT ManaGeD) macro provides an indicator for PDSE V1 or V2, and an indicator if the PDSE V2 supports member generations, but does not provide the number of member generations. This interface should be enhanced to provide the number ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Planned for future release

Health check the completeness of volumes in a zOS HyperSwap configuration managed by CSM

The HyperSwap configuration should be checked that no PPRC enabled volume that should be in the configuration is missing, otherwise the integrity of data is not given in case a Swap occurs. It should be possible to define a list with exceptions of...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

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