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Enhance IEBCOPY to be able to copy members from a concatenation of PDS/PDSEs

IEBCOPY currently does not support allocating multiple data sets to the INDD. As a user of IEBCOPY, I would like to be able to copy members from a PDS/PDSE concatenation (specified by the INDD parameter) into a single PDS/PDSE data set.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Future consideration

Issue a IEFA110I message for Dynamic Allocation return code X'020C'

When Dynamic Allocation returns a return code X'0210', message IEFA110I is issued showing the job that is currently using the data set as this example shows. DELETE APP1.TECH.TABLE IKJ56225I DATA SET APP1.TECH.TABLE ALREADY IN USE, TRY LATERIKJ562...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Allocation 1 Not under consideration

Please add ACME Client feature for automatic Certificate Generation

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the Z HMC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewal...
7 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Future consideration

z/OS Kerberos support for SPNEGO mechanism (1 3 6 1 5 5 2)

Our software product Virtel runs as a Web server on z/OS to access Legacy applications. Many of our customers have asked us to provide Kerberos support. We have tried to do this through the IBM z/OS Kerberos server, and this works fine for standar...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Network Authentication Service 1 Future consideration

MVSPUT Default trasfer type

When transferring data between two MVS systems which are EBCDIC environments the default transfer type should be set to EBCDIC instead of the default client ASCII 7-bit as it is currently when using MVSPUT or MVSGET commands. There is a guarantee ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

DFSMSdss support backup/restore of OFFLINE Volumes (like CA:Disk)

We are doing (consistent) Volume FlashCopy (with NOCOPY).Because of Duplicate VOLSER the FlashCopy Target Volume is OFFLINE.We need IBM utility to COPY this Volume to (virtual)Tape
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Try other connection paths when one fails

Currently when a connection path fails, if it is best path it will be attempted to be used the next time a session is attempted to the same end point. That is unless you set UNRCHTIM. UNRCHTIM is the amount of time it is deemed unreachable. There ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

LE: Allow TERMTHDACT option that combines UAONLY with MSG behavior, *without* the CEEDUMP clutter

Please provide an option for TERMTHDACT which provides the CICS transaction dump that UAONLY provides, along with the CESE output that MSG provides, without the copious CEEDUMP output that DUMP provides. In other words, we ONLY want the CICS trans...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Resiliency in a z/OS UNIX shared file system sysplex enivronment

Resiliency in a z/OS UNIX shared file system sysplex enivronment needs to be improved related to the critical mutually exclusive serialized functions (e.g. UNMOUNT, MOVE, MOUNT RESYNC, FILE SYSTEM INITIALIZATION, FILE SYSTEM TAKEOVER, etc.). If on...
7 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

DFHSM CDS Reorganization's interval

We conduct periodic REORGANIZATION of the CDS DATA SET in DFHSM and stop DFHSM on each occasion. We don't want to implement the reorganization as our customer system is 24/7. CA reclaim function might reduce the intervals of reorganizations, but w...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Not under consideration

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