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Slayte AHA Test Aug 26

Submitted By: SHARE-z/OS Systems Programming Submitted Date: 08/26/2024 Submitter Name: Slayte Admin USER Submitter Email: admin@slayte.com Description: Test
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 1 Future consideration

Consistent gdkdel response across cloud providers when object not found

AWS returns HTTP 204 (No content) for an object delete when the object is not found. The 204 HTTP response is a successful HTTP response (200 series) and due to that, gdkdel returns its successful return code 0. The gdkdel API documents the follow...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 1 Future consideration

Software management: Serverpac, et al. Configure Deployment should allow for BOTH a target volume, and Target Storage class, and add provision to code Dataclass

At my installation, we have SMS ACS routines for directing new OMVS datasets to certain StorClass/StorGroup, mainly for the automated allocation of user home ZFS containers.. This doesnt work for SYSRES contained OMVS datasets, so I must code STOR...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Duplicate key error can occur when copying with two different jobs at the same time with DFSMSdss-copy

Duplicate key error can occur when copying with two different jobs at the same time with DFSMSdss-copy datasets whose names start with the same 3 qualifiers and are on the same volume.This can occur if 2 different jobs try to move 2 different data...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

As in RFE ID 141306 suggested by IBM Systems Developer, I'll raise a RFE also for the z/OS Hyperswap component. z/OS Hyperswap should prevent a planned HyperSwap if a concurrent copy session is active. An unplaned HyperSwap should be possible of c...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 0 Future consideration

Logstream offload data set parser.

In the event of failures (CDS issues, I/O errors, etc) that make the existing IXGBRWSE interface incapable of reading logstream logblocks, provide a primitive interface that reads directly from an individual offload data set or range of offload da...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 1 Not under consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP & RESTORE without data

Allow DFDSS DUMP & RESTORE to run with a 'NO DATA' option so that all the selected dataset attributes are DUMP'd but without any data. And then the RESTORE function should have an option to allocate the source datasets within any DUMP (whether...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 4 Future consideration

OMVS TSOCMD does *not* honor IKJTABLS

IKJTABLS is used for the TSO environment and one would expect it to be honored with the tsocmd under OMVS but it is not. This was discovered when using tsocmd parmlib and it failed but the parmlib command worked under TSO. Added parmlib to the aut...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 5 Future consideration

IEBCOPY Member Generations - Add/Merge option

With the new IEBCOPY CPYGRP GENS=ALL the REPLACE option will first delete the copy member and generations from the target and then perform the copy. That eliminates the member and generations in the target which is counter intuitive considering th...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 0 Planned for future release

Evicting a job and restarting should work as expected even when return codes of steps executed before eviction are tested.

When a batch job is evict and restarted, it no longer has access to the return codes of steps executed prior to the eviction. The requested enhancement is make this process work as expected, which is for the job to be able to continue correctly af...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 2 Not under consideration