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Insufficient information in ADR556W

During a logical copy of a mult-ivolume data set residing on both eav and non-eav volumes, to a mixture of eav and non-eav volumes, this message only provided the data set name, and that Extend Attributes were not retained.
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

Override EATTR attribute during Dfdss copy

Why is it useful? Current problem: Unable to use the Cylinder Managed Space (CMS) on an EAV volume during the DFDSS copy of large files. Copy job fails, with space abends even though the space is there. Use case/work around: DFDSS copy of large fi...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Need to cater for changing DLIBs when moving from small to larger volumes (catalog entry mismatch)

zOSMF is currently very restrictive and prevents installation to continue if DLIB catalog entries do not match. Especially in our case where we were moving from 3xMOD9 DLIB volumes to one MOD27 for DLIB datasets. This caused the installation to ha...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 3 Future consideration

Allow z/OS C/C++ library to write zero-length data set records using record mode processing.

The z/OS C/C++ library will currently not allow the creation of zero-length records using record-mode processing using fwrite(). This applies to RECFM=V*, and RECFM=U. It is possible using text mode, but this does not allow for binary processing. ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 3 Not under consideration

Support record-wrapping in the z/OS C/C++ library

There is currently no option in the C/C++ library to wrap when writing data set records in "text" mode. The library *does* do this automatically for spool file data sets, but a line written to a regular data set that is longer than the maximum len...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Additional SMF fields in SMF119-1&2 indicating local interface type

We use the SMF 119 type 1 and type 2 information to do important analytical work to discover the load that we put on our servers. One piece of information we would like to look at is DVIPA Distributed statistics verses say VIPA RANGE so that we ca...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

zERT Data Management History

Under zERT Data Management History, please expand the list of previously attempted import operations, whether successful or not. We would like to have the ability to see the last 2000 (or more) operations. In addition, please add a column / field ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

z/OS LE/C should support to freopen() for SYSIN dataset open

System:z/OS v.2.1Description:While the SYSIN DDwhen defined with DATA or * are JES subsystem managed, in XL C, SYSIN DDwill be treated as the C stream stdin, regardless of how it is sourced(subsystem or data set), and is treated special. The freop...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / LE 2 Not under consideration

Threshold warning for Catalog service task upper limit

The Catalog address space service task upper limit is set at IPL time. This limits the number of tasks available to handle catalog requests. There is no current message or monitoring check that would alert when you are approaching the upper limit....
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance RACF to support WHEN(PROGRAM) for the WRITER class

Please enhance RACF to support commands like the following one for the WRITER class. permit JES2.NJE.CTDX001 class(WRITER) id(Your_Favorite_Scheduler_id_here) ACCESS(READ) when(PROGRAM(CKRCARLA))
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

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