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DFSMS Utilities

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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

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

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

Provide "MOVE" option to IEBCOPY /SHARE Requirement SSMVSS13010-Priority=3.7

Provide an option for IEBCOPY that deletes the members that are sucessfully copied to another PDS(E). "MOVE" is my suggestion keyword as that is the same function used to do this with ISPF.(opened per SHARE REQ-SSMVSS13010)
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 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

IEBCOPY Performance

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00046388User Marketing Field Requirement Number: JOOS0394001Title: IEBCOPY PerformanceSubmitted By: Yutaka Nikkoh/Japan/IBMOriginators Area: N/A / 81-3-3808-3795FPOC: Barbara McDonald/San Jose/IBM Erika Dawson/Tucson...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Future consideration

IEBCOPY Permit Partially Qualified Membe

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1117118014User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SOMVSE87101Title: IEBCOPY Permit Partially Qualified Member NamesSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : ...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

IEBCOPY Messages should indicate severit

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0110123345User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE11069Title: IEBCOPY Messages should indicate severity with type I W ESubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

Messages From TSO/E RENAME Should Displa

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0903133741User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE13011Title: Messages From TSO/E RENAME Should Display Fully Qualified DSNSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP :...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration