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DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS

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Allow IDCAMS to INITIALIZE a VSAM dataset during (or after) DEFINE

CICS is unable to open newly defined empty VSAM datasets as it requires at least one CI to be formatted. To overcome this requires use of an OEM or open source program (VSAMINIT is the common one) to write and then delete a record in the VSAM data...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Planned for future release

WTOR with REPRO NOMERGECAT confirming that NOMERGECAT is intended and informational msg that target catalog needs to be used

When using REPRO NOMERGECAT a WTOR should be issued asking the client if he really wants to run the NOMERGECAT and if the answer is yes, issuing a message that you must use the target catalog after the nomergecat.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 4 Not under consideration

Prevent wildcard searches on HLQ

When wildcard searches are used on large(r) systems, enq delays / decrease in performance is experienced on catalog processing that impact critical production business processes.Wildcard searches causes higher processing time for example when Db2 ...
about 1 month 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...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

Provide an SVC 26 catalog locate user exit

Many vendors have SVC 26 'hooks' or have used SVCUPDTE to change the location of the SVC 26 processing routine. Providing a front end pre SVC 26/Locate and a back end end post SVC26/Locate fully documented and dynamic exit would help vendors and r...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

TSO DELETE should delete the PDSE base member and all generatlons

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
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under 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 ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance IDCAMS error reporting - IDC3027I

We recently had a problem where the VTOC was full or near full on multiple volumes. Many batch jobs were failing when attempting to do an IDCAMS DEFINE and IDCAMS was generating the following message: IDC3027I NO SPACE IN VTOC OR VTOC INDEX The Pr...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Functionality already exists

Provide additional restriction to using IDCAMS DELETE 'XYZ.**' MASK

Protect data environment from unintenational data loss
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 4 Not under consideration

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.
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Planned for future release

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