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Use SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK on libraries other than the current PARMLIB

We can use the SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK command to check our BPXPRMxx member in the current PARMLIB concatenation. However, most errors occur during IPL time with an updated version of these members, which might be on a different data set or even a dif...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / USS 0 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...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

creation of a new read-only variable: &LIKE(Yes/No) for the ACS routine

With the LIKE parameter in JCL the following read-only variables are not available in the ACS-routines. &DSNTYPE &DSORG &MAXSIZE &RECORG &SIZE I would like to have a new read-only variable : &LIKE (YES/No) recognize that th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 0 Future consideration

Man page for zfsadm - enhance

The zfsadm man page is a good start but needs to be enhanced thus: 1. Enable 'man -k .' to find information within it2. Expand to support the various zfsadm sub-commands (e.g. config) - suggest following the example of the ssh man pages which have...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / Documentation 5 Future consideration

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

Middleware recovery Boost parameters options

Dear Madam/Sir We would like to have the feasibility to change the way that is divided the daily interval of 30minutes of Recovery Boost. It should be useful to have the possibility of customization of thefollowing Middleware Recovery boost settin...
6 months ago in z/OS / BCP_General 2 Not under consideration

PDSE Member Generation access using JCL

Enhance JCL to enable access to PDSE V2 member generations.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Future consideration

switch from IEFUSI to SMFLIM

Hi IBM, today we use IEFUSI to adjust Region Limit and Region Size for z/OS Address Spaces.With this Exit, we also make sure that we have a sufficiently large difference between Region Limit (LDALIMIT/LDAELIM) and Region Size (LDAVVRG/LDAEVVRG). z...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 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 ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 0 Future consideration

Support LogFilter for ibm-filterSubject

Currently, we can set a logfilter for an IP-Adress by using / F ldapuxsl, LOG FILTER,(IBM-FILTERIP=1.2.3.4) In the ACL documentation we find additional filters that can be set for ACLs, for example ibm-filterSubject. Having the Subject filter also...
6 months ago in z/OS / LDAP 0 Future consideration

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