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Allow ML2 parameter for the MIGRATE SG and MIGRATE VOLUME parameters.

Customers may encounter a situation where their HSM ML1 volumes have filled and yet they still need more space in the storage groups for production data. Customers can use the MIGRATE SG command or the MIGRATE VOLUME command. However, the ML2 subp...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

API/ Plugin to be used for data transferring to vendors- using zOSMF FTP servers definition

Create an API or plugin to be used to transfer data to vendors. we already have all vendors defined on zosmf FTP server definitions I know incident log has this features, including adding any dataset to an existing incident log entry, but we´re no...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Supoorted netcat utility for z/OS USS

The unix Netcat utility needs to be formally ported and supported by IBM for USS on z/OS.
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Future consideration

additional JESLOG SPIN options

provide several additional options to the JESLOG=SPIN parameter:- ability to spin once a week- adhoc by command- ability to keep the first bit of output
over 8 years ago in z/OS / JES2 1 Future consideration

ISPF Extended Statistics Enhanced Display

Currently ISPF supports extended statistics but fails to display them.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 2 Future consideration

Provide Unique ABENDs for B37-04

<p>Copied from old SHARE Requirements system <span>SSSHARE012857</span>: Voting Priority=2.9</p><br /><p>+5=2 +4=10 +3=3 +2=5 +1=3 abstain=1 -2=1 Priority=2.9</p><br /><p>Allocation failures (B...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 5 Future consideration

Z/OSMF ISPF needs to use ACCOUNT NUMBERS with comma's.

z/OSMF ISPF does not allow account numbers with comma's. Since z/OSMF ISPF does not allow full screen logon and uses line mode type of logon. The account number gets truncated to the first comma. example of a full screen account number that 3270 u...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Future consideration

Add option to accept BASE94 ct_krd token in TR34 CSNDT34B BIND service

As per AANDC protocol the KRD is sending BASE94 format ct_krd token to Remote Key Loading application. The CSNDT34B BIND service accepts only DER format. Hence the RKL application has to perform a conversion and there is a possibility that it coul...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 3 Future consideration

Improve HSM ML1 migration volume selection by considering fragmentation

When HSM attempts to migrate a data set to an ML1 volume, it only considers free space available on the volume. Unfortunately, in an environment with large volume sizes (like 1TB EAV's), there can be a lot of free space available on a volume, but ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Support for generated jobs

We need a simple way of execution of JCL, REXX or shell script that were generated in a previous step of a provisioning workflow.Provisioning XML, that is part of a cloud provisioning template consists of two steps1. Step – generate a JCL by an ex...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

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