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

    include CopyPool Records in DCOLLECT Output

    The DCOLLECT function should include informations about copypools.
    about 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Planned for future release

    IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME should support multiple level rename

    Consolidating sysplexes, I've got a requirement to rename all data sets under a given HLQ to a multi level qualifier. IDCAMS ALTER NEWNAME would allow it for a single qualifier to a single qualifier (though the masking requirements are somewhat st...
    over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

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

    Protect data environment from unintenational data loss
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 4 Not under consideration

    A catalog entry for a VSAM data set with wrong catalog backwards reference in the VVR should not be deleted with RC50 RSN88

    DELETE attemps of datasets with a wrong catalog in the VVR get rc50 rsn 88. The entry is deleted from the catalog, but not from the volume.This creates an inconsistency between catalog an volumecontent. The clients says it would have been better i...
    almost 11 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

    Threshold warning for Catalog service task upper limit

    The Catalog address space service task upper limit is set at IPL time. This limits the number of tasks available to handle catalog requests. There is no current message or monitoring check that would alert when you are approaching the upper limit....
    almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

    When using IDCAMS with a model statement, allow for the use of keylabel(NONE) to not copy the model datasets encryption key. This allows for the dataset attributes to be copied without requiring access to an encryption key.

    This would allow application developers who need to create 'test' datasets and want to use production dataset attributes. They don't want to access the data, just attributes.
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

    Change IDCAMS Diagnose so it can process large numbers of catalog records

    IDCAMS Diagnose is currently limited in the amount of entries it can process. It should be modified to process very large numbers of catalog entries as catalogs can now exceed the 4GB limit and access as Extended Attribute datasets. Diagnose curre...
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Planned for future release

    Separate Storage Management Privileges for STGADMIN.IGG.DEFDELUALIAS

    SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0708031150User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR0708031150Title: Separate Storage Management Privileges (RUGR20020009)Submitted By: Mark Nelson/Poughkeepsie/IBMOriginators Area: z/OS Security Server (RACF) Desig...
    over 11 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Planned for future release

    option to disable updating last-reference for given volumes

    Our 'system' volumes are mounted read-only so they can be shared among multiple, unrelated, z/OS systems. The syslog is full of following error messages related to data sets on these volumes;IEC331I 028-002(000C0010),job,step,IGG0CLEG IEC331I cata...
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Not under consideration

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