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Fast Replication target volumes that have no UCB should be ignored

With FR the pool storage group(source) and the COPY POOL BACKUP storage group(target) must not contain predefined devices without UCB. Application data can grow very fast, so we use automated tasks that initialize new volumes. Unfortunatelly, when...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Disallow edit/save of PDSE generated members

Provide the ability to disallow editing the non-zero PDSE member versions.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS PDS/PDSE 1 Future consideration

Add new parameter in SYS1.PARMLIB to allow OAM to use an optional LPAR name for zFS-resident objects

Currently, when OAM accesses objects where the Primary copy is resident in zFS, the full filesystem pathname is built dynamically, and one of the elements in the pathname is the LPAR name. In cases where an OAM environment is moved to a different ...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 0 Future consideration

zOSMF Enforce Default save location for all workflows

There is no possibility to define or enforce a default save location for all users. Each User can save a workflow to any location where he/she was write access to. As this can produce a complete mess and no one have an overview about all workflows...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 3 Future consideration

Enhance HCM Cable Assignments dialog, allow exclusion of connections that cannot be assigned a cable

In HCM, Cable Assignments, When viewing connections without cables, there are some connections displayed which cannot be assigned a cable. OSA, IQD types for example. Add an additional filter option to exclude from the display, connections which c...
5 months ago in z/OS / HCM 0 Future consideration

Improve ISPF 3.17 by allowing CD on the command line

ISPF 3.17 (UDList) is a useful tool but navigating can be improved by allowing the user to enter a change directory command on the command line. This would mean that the command line would need to allow mixed case text to be entered.
over 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

IBM zSort accelerator to support removing dublicates

We have enabled the IBM zSort accelerator with succes. But notice that some of our jobs containing sorts, are not elegible.Specifically jobs that sort and remove duplicates. We believe that removing duplicates is a feature that should be possible ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 0 Future consideration

DSFS create command to allocate new z/OS dataset

The use of the dsfs createparm or extattr to define a prototype for new datasets is not intuitive. Suggest creating a dsfs makeds command to allocate a new ps or pds using appropriate attributes on the command. There would be no need for prototype...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 3 Future consideration

Enhance LISTDSI to support Relative GDGs

Enhance LISTDSI to support Generation Data Sets with relative GDG.
over 5 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

z/OS 3.1 SDSF and "FS - File systems OMVS" MOUNTPARM Truncated to 57 chars.

The z/OS OMVS MOUNTPARM: parameter can be up to 1024 characters long. Suggestion: 1. If not possible for SDSF to return the complete MOUNTPARM value up to 1024 then please tell this in the: SDSF Help Text panel ( F1 Help Key) Help-Text MOUNTPARM !...
11 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration