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SMP CSI - Global & Target zone - Sysmods Receive/Apply - Reporting/Audit

There's multiple people who perform the receive/apply etc. processing against the SMP/E CSI's and sometime it's an ask to go back say about 3 months back to find out who received/applied the sysmod, so I thought since CSI is KSDS i could certainly...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

PFI0710-1354 Deployment manager should allocate linklist-datasets with one extend

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: lutz.lasthaus-freund@f-i.deSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0710-1354 Deployment manager should allocate linklist-datasets with one extendHomework Assigned: NoRequirement C...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 3 Future consideration

Permit zOSMF Software Deployment to initialize online target volume

zOSMF Software Deployment's "initialize target volume?" option, when opted, demands the target volume be offline. This requires manual intervention in the deployment of a software instance before and after the ICKDSF/INIT job to vary the device of...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

JES2 $DOGBERT NAME= should detect name not found condition earlier

The implementations of $DOGBERT in both HASPCKPT (routine $DOGBERT) and HASCSRIC (BERTREAD) when search for a match on NAME, continue until the end of the chain for the CBTYPE. In both routines the search is at label DGNSRCST. It appears that the ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Unconditionally allow renames of datasets within DFDSS dump dataset

If I do a DFDSS (ADRDSSU) backup of a dataset such as SED.JCL, and then take that backup to another site that doesn't have the HLQ of "SED", but the user (SCOTT) does have access to a HLQ of "SCOTT" and he then attempts a restore, like this: RESTO...
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 4 Future consideration

Add DFSMShsm RECYCLE for Cloud Objects

An enhancement to DFSMShsm RECYCLE to consolidate containers with a few objects to the "active" container or a specific container for consolidated objects. DFSMShsm creates cloud containers to store objects using the default syntax of SYSARC.<H...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Empty target distribution libraries

Empty target or distribution PDSes are not copied to the target instance. I can bypass this issue by adding the PDSes to the list of non-SMP/E managed data sets.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

Enhance performance of fseek on multi-volume FBS data sets.

Function fseek should offer the same performance on FBS data sets regardless of how many volumes they are stored on.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / LE 0 Future consideration

Provide a user authorization and permissions agent compatible with Red Hat FreeIPA

Red Hat is investing in creating a user and security based tool for identity management and open sourcing the result as FreeIPA (www.freeipa.org). I would like to suggest making a CMS client for FreeIPA to allow VM user management with FreeIPA. I ...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Suppress DD-level accounting information in the SMF type 30 EXCP section for individual DDs.

JES2 encountered ABENDS878-10. If there had been such an option to suppress DD-level accounting information in the SMF type 30 EXCP section for individual DDs, the ABENDS878-10 problem could have been prevented.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 9 Future consideration

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