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DFSMS SMS

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    Wild card/s for numeric, alpha characters

    Currently there are only *(asterisk) and %(percent) symbols for wild carding DSN (dataset names) in the ACS routines. To optimize/simplify ACS routine coding, we need wild cards for numeric, alpha characters instead of just % for specific fixed po...
    about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Future consideration

    DFSMS, SREAD OVER VOLUMES depending upon volume-status and free-space

    'Spread over volumes' allocated always on the volumes at the beginning of a storagegroup, regardless of volume-status : QUINEW,ENABLE and free-space. If it supported the behavior of primary allocation over multiple volumes no longer differs from o...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

    Support SHAREOPTIONS when creating a VSAM with JCL

    We are trying to use the JCL DD statement to create some VSAM Data Sets to remove the extra IDCAMS DEFINE steps in some jobs. It is working quite well, especially if we are using the LIKE parameter to get most of the properties from 'model' VSAMs....
    over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

    DFSMS read-only variable for disposition parameter

    DFSMSrmm EXPDT retention method can exploit management classes to set expiration dates, can retain data sets based on catalog status, etc., but there are some retention settings that were previously implemented with the VRSEL retention method that...
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

    Change allocation unit from cylinder to megabyte or tracks for a better release

    To avoid loosing space when customer allocate file in cylinder unit, it should be great to have a properties on dataclas to convert automatically cylinders unit allocation to tracks or megabytes. In this way the space release is done at tracks bou...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

    DFSMS dynamically assign an overflow pool using a command

    The Itau bank is asking IBM DFSMS team to improve the overflow SG pool function adding a new command to assign a overflow sg dynamically.
    about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

    Enhance SMS message IGD17279I to better describe file allocation error - the diagnostic code in the message (041A041D) is not useful.

    Hello, we recently had an incident with non-VSAM allocation space problems on EAV volumes due to the Dataclass EATTR defaulting to 'blank'. We came across the following message and required IBM support to provide an explanation: IGD17279I 411 VOLU...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

    Enhance DFSMS to check for assignment of DATACLASS values for the SCDS, ACDS, & COMMDS

    This will inform administrators prior to an activation that a configuration conflict exist which may cause activation to go into allocation, effectively preventing activation from proceeding. Worse case could be a difficult to recover CDS file.
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 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...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

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