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Enhance D OMVS command to show all active PARMLIB members used

At IPL time a d omvs command will display all the BPXPRMxx members used as expected. But if a t omvs=xx is issued later then the d omvs command will only report on that one BPXPRMxx and *not* the prior members which is misleading and incorrect as ...
4 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Future consideration

ISPF and USS are applications that should be consistent in their ENQ behavior since they edit and browse datasets. Expecting DSFS to handle dataset ENQs like ISPF.

With Open Enterprise Foundation, using vim (with DSFS) to browse and edit datasets should be a similar experience as when using ISPF.Dataset ENQs with consistent messages would be expected.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration
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Full ISPF Support for PDSE V2 Generations

ISPF needs to fully support PDSE V2 generations. Currently ISPF Edit supports creating a new generation when a member is saved but none of the other ISPF services recognize a generation. Access to prior generations is not intuitive and thus effect...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 9 Future consideration

Provide the ability for DSS to be able to scratch and reallocate an in use (ENQed) dataset that is not the actual dataset in use during a logical copy operation.

System programmers who maintain indirectly cataloged datasets on a maintenance sysres / sysres set that gets cloned to an IPLable sysres set.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 5 Future consideration

Cleanup user specific settings from z/OSMF filesystem

User specific settings are being stored in multiple places in the z/OSMF filesystem. Users come and go, and when a userid is removed from a z/OS system, his/her user specific settings remain in the z/OSMF filesystem on this system. Over time this ...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

SDSF to provide a display/panel for System Recovery Boost (SRB) for Middleware Subsystems on z16 showing boost eligibility and if boost has actually occurred along with type of boost.

There is currently no way to determine whether a Middleware Subsystem running on a z16 is eligible for BOOST without going into the WLM Service Definition --> Classification Rules --> STC and then paging right to check the BOOST column. Not ...
10 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

Reduce the increase of number of CICS getmains after LE z/OS 2.4 and new parameter CEENXSTG

After the migration to z/OS 2.4 the number of CICS getmains increased by 40 percent.This tremendous increase is caused by the introduction of the new Language Environment parameter CEENXSTG.CEENXSTG is a parameter that indicates whether non-execut...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

DFSMSdss COPYDUMP function would include an option to Tape REBLOCK

DFSMSdss DUMP tape created using Large Block Interface , reduces its usability for other components, besides RESTORE and COPYDUMP.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Change allocation unit from cylinder to megabyte or tracks for a better release

To avoid loosing space when customer allocate file in cylinder unit, it should be great to have a properties on dataclas to convert automatically cylinders unit allocation to tracks or megabytes. In this way the space release is done at tracks bou...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

z/OSMF SCA: Add more options to "fixing"

The generation of RACF commands to "fix" the security settings is a great new feature. However, we like to suggest some improvements: - do not generate a new discrete profile but check for the best-matching profile instead (maybe let the user deci...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

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