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IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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PCIT0412-1505 Ability to define a GDG base without CREATE or ALTER to the dataset resource

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: william.pape@citigroup.comSubmitters Company: Citigroup PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PCIT0412-1505 Ability to define a GDG base without CREATE or ALTER to the dataset resourceHomework Assigned: NoRequirement C...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

PUBS0511-1408 Enhance NFS Server to Operate in a Parallel Sysplex Environment

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: hanspeter.vogel@ubs.comSubmitters Company: UBS PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PUBS0511-1408 Enhance NFS Server to Operate in a Parallel Sysplex EnvironmentHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core Technolo...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 3 Not under consideration

ABEND cleanup for DFDSS when called by DFHSM

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00026432User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GO6SMG92034Title: ABEND cleanup for DFDSS when called by DFHSM.Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Robert2 Gens...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

DFDSS PDS Member Restore

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00027853User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GO6SMG82008Title: DFDSS PDS Member RestoreSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Robert2 Gensler/Tucson/IBM Submit...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

DFSMSdss COPY and RESTORE to drive Data Class ACS routine

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1026104141User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR1026104141Title: DFSMSdss RESTORE to drive Data Class ACS routineSubmitted By: Alex Lam/CanWest/IBMOriginators Area: Vancouver B.C. CanadaFPOC: Robert2 Gensler/Tuc...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

DFP remove size restrictions from GENCB

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00027623User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SCTPAM86020Title: DFP remove size restrictions from GENCBSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Barbara McDonald/S...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 3 Not under consideration

Discrimination Between Data And Code.

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00027615User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SAAPDE82022Title: Discrimination Between Data And Code.Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Barbara McDonald/San...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 4 Not under consideration

DFP chained VSAM reads for control inter

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00027958User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GO6SMG91001Title: DFP chained VSAM reads for control interval/block optionsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 3 Not under consideration

Generic Naming of Catalog Aliases

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00046369User Marketing Field Requirement Number: JOOS0294001Title: Generic Naming of Catalog AliasesSubmitted By: Yutaka Nikkoh/Japan/IBMOriginators Area: N/A / 81-3-3808-3795FPOC: Barbara McDonald/San Jose/IBM Erika...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Creating Common Dataspaces

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0324085813User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE08001Title: Creating Common DataspacesSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC: Brian Keuli...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 4 Not under consideration