IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

DFSMS SMS

Showing 40

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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Future consideration

DFSMS and improved volume selection in a Storagegroup.

Any installation changes volume size over the years. From M3 to M54 and now many of us use EAVs as well.So the storagegroups is typically a mix volumes with different sizes; from a few GBs to many GBs. The key criteria for SMS volume selection und...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

EAV impacting Overflow storage group usage

Due to the introduction of EAV volumes in our environment, the number of volumes in our primary storage groups will be reduced such that the number of volumes in the overflow pool can have more than the number of volumes requested for an allocatio...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Future consideration

JCL LIKE for PDSE Version and MAXGENS

In JCL, the DD LIKE parameter is used to specify the allocation attributes of a new data set by copying the attributes of an existing cataloged data set. One attribute it copies is the DSNTYPE parameter, which includes whether the model data set i...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 6 Future consideration

DFSMSsms ACS provide &OLDNAME variable during ACSENVIR=RENAME in MGMTCLAS

During SMS &ACSENVIR='RENAME' processing there is currently no ability in the MGMTCLAS routine to check what the original dataset name is, you only have the newname in the &DSN variable. This means that inappropriate renames cannot be prev...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Not under consideration

DFSMS ACS &MAXSIZE for Extended Format datasets

The value for the variable &MAXSIZE in DFSMSdfp Automatic Class Selection for NON-VSAM datasets is always calculated as 1 x Primary + 15 x Secondary, + Directory if applicable. In the case of &DSNTYPE being EXC, EXR or LIBRARY this value s...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Not under 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.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

DFSMS Storage group Analysis

DFSMS Storage Group Analysis : Currently, there is no way to check the allocations of a DFSMS Storage Group during a specific period. This makes it difficult to understand the amount of allocation, free space, largest free cylinders ( in each volu...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Future consideration

Need a parm to be added in SETSMS CICSVR command as a part of RFE 89552

Needed the below shown options for SETSMS command in DFSMS as a part of RFE 89552 development. SETSMS CICSVR_TIMER(x) x - can be any value from 0 to 7200
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 4 Not under 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 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.