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Add better support to ISPF for accessing non 0 PDSEv2 members.

We are using PDSEv2 more and more, specifically the feature that supports prior versions of members.However, the mechanisms to reference non-0 members is quite difficult leading us to write our own program to allocate the desired member. Thus, the...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

JES2 policy editor

JES2 policy is a new feature in z/OS 2.4 that allows system programmer to create JES2 job preprocessing and post processing other than using exits. However, JES2 policy is in form of JSON. It would be more user friendly to design the JES2 policy w...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

auditing of certificate usage

Provide a means of auditing usage of specific certificates.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

An ABEND in OCEOV Recovery May Lead to an ABEND0C4-11 in DADSM SCRATCH, RENAME, or PARTREL

As described in 87671,L6Q,000 PMR - we have encountered SVC catalog dumps. Upon analysis, they seem to be related to APAR OA33829.This problem is described in OA33829 which has been closed as a suggestion to be fixed in a future release.From IBM: ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Planned for future release

AMAPDUPL and meaningful error messages

Using AMAPDUPL return sometimes RC different of zero. In general this RC and messages are not meaningful or comprehensible or printed on the sysout. For exemple, if you want to have a TARGET_DSN with an £ character, the server return a bad request...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 1 Not under consideration

Prevent the user to activate all RACF cdt classes trying to list the active options

The way RACF is designed today, it doesn't allow an user to filter sort of options it has in effect. For example, if I want to list only the active classes, there isn't a filter for that suggesting I should use SETROPTS LIST to list everything. Th...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / RACF 4 Not under consideration

EAV impacting Overflow storage group usage

Due to the introduction of EAV volumes in our environment, the number of volumes in our primary storage groups will be reduced such that the number of volumes in the overflow pool can have more than the number of volumes requested for an allocatio...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 2 Future consideration

USS tar command support with zEDC

USS tar command support with zEDC Express Adaper for compress and uncompress. Currently, we need the third vender software with zEDC for compress, but versatility expands if USS tar command can be used with zEDC express adaptor. The CPU Time is re...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 3 Not under consideration

Adding a message in SPACEREL on spaced freed after releasing extents.

In preparation for Global Mirror and Thin Provisioned volumes in DS8950F Storage Manager we need to run SPACEREL on all available LPARS, so after running a few weeks we noticed that the messages are not really useful at determining freed space. Cu...
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Not under consideration

Provide API's for basic PDSE Access

Currently the internals of a PDSE (version 1 or 2) are hidden from the user who doesn't have a NDA and access to FAMS. Please expose to the user/ISV community some of that information. Such as: Current MAXGEN value for the PDSE Ability to dynamica...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Future consideration

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