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DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS

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    Add Master Catalog enqueue (or something) to prevent unexpected master catalog delete

    We roll out maintenance through a rolling IPL process. Each maintenance IPL uses a rotating cycle of 2 or 3 sysres sets (call them A, B and possibly C), of which the oldest is built with the new maintenance each time. Part of this process is to al...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under 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 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

    IDCAMS PRINT translate lowercase EBCDIC characters

    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. In the current environment, it would be very hel...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

    DSECT for SHCDS Listrecovery output or DSECTs for SHCDS-Commands outputs for processing/examining the output via program. If this is not possible, then please give a hint via SMPE (Usermod, Hold...) or somewhat else when the layout of this output changes.

    We are using RLS in CICS and we use EXCI interface for quiescing and unquiescing Datasets in CICS, for further batch processing of RLS-datasets. To determine then recovery-status of the datasets which need to be quiesced via EXCI, we use IDCAMS-pr...
    almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

    TSO DELETE should delete the PDSE base member and all generations

    TSO Delete currently deletes the PDSE base member (generation 0) and leaves generations -1 and beyond as orphan/ghost members. Delete should delete the base and all generations - with an appropriate message See old idea ZOS-I-3593 this is a fairly...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Future consideration

    LISTCAT CATALOG to produce CSV output

    Hi, The output of LISTCAT CATALOG should be very efficient to be produced in csv format as well. Having all the information in one line per entry, a system programmer can extract easier the provided information. Kid regards Konstantinos
    8 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

    IDCAMS DEFINE MODEL SMS parameters

    In an IDCAMS DEFINE, if we specify a MODEL, it would be great if the SMS parameters (DATACLASS, ...) of the model be used.
    almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

    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 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 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 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

    IDCAMS: DEFINE RECATALOG for multivolume dataset with volcount > 2 in order to the filesequence and all volumes

    Recatalog the multivolume dataset in wrong order and or less volumes the dataset is corrupted but the IDCAMS has returncode=0.
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Planned for future release

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