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Data Set File System (DSFS)

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Provide full sysout access (read only acceptable) mirroring SDSF access

Currently with /dsfs/sysout/ the user is only allowed to see and look at spool data that is owned by their userid, which includes any TSO sessions or batch jobs under that userid. With SDSF that same user can view the spool for not only my own sys...
5 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Enhance DSFS CreateParm to support masking for the path

The createparm path is currently a high-level-qualifier of one or more levels. It needs to be more granular such as hlq.*.ASM or hlq.*.EXEC as this makes more sense as all ASM would be FB 80 and EXEC would be either FB 80 or VB 255 depending on th...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Git path directory, for adding transparent git support for datasets

A `.git` file can be created with content: `gitdir: <path-to-zFS-where-no-pdspdse-constraints-exist>` to keep all git data elsewhere. Another advantage of keeping .git data separate (DSFS transparently handling just a representative `.git` f...
5 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

When using dsfs in a PDS the ls -al should display ISPF statistics or other info

When using ISPF the member display panel will display either ISPF statistics (if available) or load module information. The ls -al command when using /dsfs should present similar information when it is available. Since dsfs supports ISPF statistic...
10 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 4 Future consideration

Add include option to DSFS

There is only one valid value for HLQ_MODE and that is EXCLUDE. To enable controlled use of DSFS in production, HLQ_MODE=EXCLUDE is insufficient. What sense does the parameter make if there is only one permissible value, namely EXCLUDE? How would ...
5 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Improve DSFS Help messages for readability

Improve DSFS help message to be more readable. Examples: Current dsadm createparm -help IDFS00090I Usage: IDFZADM createparm -path <path name> [{-pdsmodel <sub-directory parameters> | -psmodel <sub-file parameters>}] [-level] [-h...
11 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

DSFS Improve IDFS00080I message

When in the shell, either via OMVS or ssh, entering dsadm by itself results in the IDFS00080I message. This message instructs the user to type in IDFZADM help or IDFZADM hep -topic. The user enter dsadm and not idfzadm and probably has no clue wha...
11 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Enhance the SYSOUT display with actual date/time

Current when entering /dsfs/sysout/xxx the date and time for the displayed jobs is the date/time that /dsfs/sysout/xxx was entered and *NOT* the date/time of the actual sysout job submission or creation. This is very misleading and should be fixed...
5 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 4 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

Clean up the DSFS dsadm query reporting

In the DSFS product the dsadm query has a number of reports. The issue is that the heading format is inconsistent. examples: compression has no header metacache has a header but no dashed line below it some have no space before the header so if mu...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

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