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Enhance ISPF LMMDEL to support PDSE Member Generations

If use on a member generations then just delete that generation. If use on generation 0 (base member) then delete the base member and *all* generations.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Add Compaction information to HSM FSR SMF records

The SMF type 14/15 records normally contain the information about whether sequential data sets are compressed or not, and if they are, what type of compression as used. However, HSM uses DSS to process sequential data sets from Primary devices - D...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

RLSENABLE to fail when no CF structures defined

By providing the required define parameters for RLS and specifying storage class that did not have the required CF structures defined. The catalog was defined successfully, and a MODIFY CATALOG,RLSENABLE(catalogName) was successful. An attempt to ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

ISPF LMMLIST and LMDLIST should provide discrete info on each member generation

Currently in 3.1 (based on what I learned at SHARE) LMMLIST and LMDLIST provide information on the base generation and then information on the number of generations saved the most recent absolute generation, and the max number of generations. This...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Future consideration

Externalize the ISPF 3.4 FREE option

ISPF 3.4 (DSLIT) provides a FREE dataset selection option that will release unused space. Please provide an external interface via an ISPF Service that will accomplish this so that it can be used programatically.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 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...
6 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 6 Functionality already exists

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...
6 months ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

TSO RECEIVE support for DSNTYPE keyword

Allow XMIT files of a PDS to be restored to DSNTYPE(LIBRARY). That is, after command "RECEIVE INDS(xmit.dataset)" is issued, allow response to be "DA('new.pdse.name') DSNTYPE(LIBRARY)" and RECEIVE will allocate the new PDSE with DSNTYPE=LIBRARY be...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Need a secure XMIT module which prevents sending of encrypted data

z/OS Encryption is basically broken, as I can XMIT an encrypted data set to you (or offsite) ... and it becomes unencrypted.I think the same applies to FTP.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / TSO 2 Future consideration

Display more than eight Systems in ISMF panels

When displaying the volumes of a storage group MVS and SMS statuses for only eight systems are shown (e.g panelid DGTLGP36). In environments with more systems it is toilsome to get an overview especially when there is a large number of disks in th...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 0 Future consideration

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