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DFSMS Utilities

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System utilities should produce more parseable output

IBM system utility output can be unnecessarily verbose. Most utilities produce page numbers, multiple headings, etc. Quite often this is not useful and must be filtered out by programs or scripts before or during processing. It would be be very us...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 4 Future consideration

Converting DFSMS utilities (IEBGENER) to 31bit

For a Special isv application (Serena merant dimensions) we've had to activate XPLINK(ON) for some EPLI main routines. Same application uses/calls IEBGENER too and this combination isn't working now:CEE3194E An attempt was made to initialize an AM...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 3 Not under consideration

request for a utility to copy from USS to MVS GDG

Request for a utility to copy files from USS to Z/OS MVS side
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

IEBUPDTE Support for VB and LRECL > 80

This utility is limited to 80 bytes, but PDS/PDSE are not limited to 80 bytes, so we can not use it to add members to a PDS/PDSE that exceed the 80 byte limit. IEBUPDTE should support the limit of PDS/PDSE LRECL.IEBUPDTE should support RECFM=VB/VB...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

A new paramenter to automatically throttle the amount of DVE requests to be processed based upon a user's region spec.

Please make a change to introduce a new parameter for DEVMAN to automatically throttle the amount of requests to be processed based upon a user's region specification.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

FACILITY STGADMIN for IDCAMS VERIFY

Title “STGADMIN.IDC profile for IDCAMS VERIFY” Target Group: DFSMS & RACFRequest: Addition to RACF FACILITY CLASS CheckingResource Name (proposed): STGADMIN.IDC.VERIFY.DATASETPurpose: To avoid the need for ALTER access to the DS. Sample JCL th...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

IEBCOPY - Eliminate duplicate options COPYGRP/COPYGROUP to eliminate confusion

There are two confusingly similar options - COPYGROUP and COPYGRP. One is a superset of the other. This presents confusion to typical users who find the option that 'sounds' or 'reads' like it will do what they want but really doesn't. This presen...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

Prevent IEBGENER overlay of PDS or PDSE dataset

When using IEBGENER it is possible to forget to add a MEMBER NAME on the SYSUT2 which then corrupts the PDS or PDS/E. Sometimes you can recover but sometimes you cannot. It would be helpful if IEBGENER could TEST the dataset type on SYSUT2 and if ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

Eliminate IEBCOPY Restriction: Inability/Prohibition to COPY RECFM=FB to VB or Vice Versa

IBM publication "z/OS MVS System Messages Volume 7 (IEB -IEE) Version 2 Release 2", SA38-0674-05, p. 30, in message IEB127I, states that "IEBCOPY can not copy from fixed-length record format to variable-length record format or the reverse." Moreov...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

Create ISPF Statistics when adding a member via IEBUPDTE

Can a parameter be added to the ADD statement of the IEBUPDTE utility to optionally create ISPF statistics when a new member is added to a PDS? We realize that the statistics are created when/if the new member is edited, but that may or may not ev...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

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