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Automate HSM RECYCLE and EXPIREBV commands by ARCCMDxx

For maintenance purposes, it would be very functional to have the possibility of scheduling an automatic window in ARCCMDxx to execute RECYCLE / EXPIREBV commands on specific days and times. This would remove the need to run batch jobs to execute ...
23 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Under review

Possibilitar que ocorram HMIGRATES em paralelo no DFSMSHsm

Peço criar a possiblidade do HMIGRATE de DATASETS executar em paralelo e se possivel com o mesmo controle de quantidade similar ao MAXMIGRATION TASKS do Primary Space Management
13 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Under review

SMF/ICSF - Increase input validation for SMF record signing

Defining a TOKENNAME for either RECSIGN or ARECSIGN in the SMFPRMxx member is only validated to be exactly 32-characters long. However, one can activate the member with SET SMF=00 without throwing an error (even there is no associated private/publ...
13 days ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Under review

z/OSMF plugin to support SYSPLEX systems with multiple MAS's

We run a 10 system Sysplex and each of these systems has its own JES2 MAS. Currently, the zOSMF Plugin does not have the capability to see all these zOS systems and without this capability, we don't see our site making much use of the zOSMF Plugin.
2 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Under review

TSO/E REXX LISTDSI providing information out of the VIO datasets

We have legacy jobs using LISTDSI to collect dataset attributes; SYSNAME SYSDSORG, SYSLRECL and SYSRECFM. We want to increase the default maximum size of the VIO storage group to benefit batch workloads. Before the VIO increase their temporary dat...
2 months ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Under review

WORK OF THE RMM WHILE IS IN QUIESCE

When the RMM is put into QUIESCE, something should be enabled so that it does not leave queued the jobs that want to use new tapes and that those that are in flight when they finish and need to do the CLOSE do not stay waiting for the RMM to becom...
19 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Under review

Create a report to show the unused defaults table entries

If a customer has a large number of VRS definitions he can use the VRSEL report to identify "Unused VRS Definitions" at the end of the report. I have successfully converted a customer with approximate 13.0000 RDS definitions to approximate 13.000 ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Autobackup for HSM USS files

This functionality to allow the USS files under a file system to be automatically backed when the autobackup for the SMS management class is setup.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Under review

IBM GTZ for EAV support should provide the dataset name when a module is found as being in error

Hello, When the tracker identify a program not EAV compliant for example for reason SMS-E:1 DADSM OBTAIN, the tracker should provide on which dataset name the problem was found This could allow to migrate one storage group to EAV if we found that ...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Under review

Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

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