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Regular expression $ matching needs improvement

The string ISPF passes to the regular expression matcher appears to include trailing blanks, even when those trailing blanks are not logically there. ie. the blanks are there as an artifact of the editor (VB datasets) or would not generally be the...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Defrag should leave / add freespace to PDS with 0 Secondary extents

When DSS is defragmenting a volume, add an optional parameter FREE%(nn default 10, nn default 10) that applies to DSORG=PO,SPACE=(qty,(prm,0,dir)) that the resulting DSORG=PO have nn% free space and nn% free directory blocks). When DSS is defragme...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 2 Not under consideration

Fail the RDEFINE and RALTER command is the STDATA user ID and group does not exist

If a non existent user ID or group is specified in the STDATA segment parm when executing the RDEFINE or RALTER command, the command should fail. Currently the command is allowed to proceed - a warning message is pushed out to the user informing t...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

Add remote file name to SYSTCPSM SMF119 NMI FTP record

Only the mainframe side file name of the FTP file transfer is available in the SMF119 record provided to the SYSTCPSM NMI interface. If the file is being renamed on the FTP file transfer, the remote file name is not available in the SMF record
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Document Generic Tracker Facility GTZPRINT Msgs/RCs in IBM Pubs

The Generic Tracker Facility, introduced with z/OS 2.1, provides a utility program, GTZPRINT, to print recorded tracking events with sample invocation JCL in SYS1.SAMPLIB(GTZPRNTJ). If the utility fails the user is instructed to find return code e...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Generic Tracker 2 Planned for future release

Allow HSM Recycle of tape to disk

We have HSM backup data on tape, and we would like to move this to disk instead. We have implemented autobackup to disk, but even after several months there is still tape media that contains valid backup versions. We need the ability to recycle th...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Avoid abend0C4 in BPXPRFVE touching volatile control blocks.

RTM1 software logrec entries should be suppessed by FRR recovery routine for 0C4 when addessing volatile control blocks.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / USS 3 Future consideration

Add support for LBI to C/RTL

C/RTL does not currently support BLKSIZE > 32760 for tape data sets. LBI allows a BLKSIZE up to ~256K. C/RTL should support LBI to allow for more efficient transfer of data stored on tape.
over 10 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Future consideration

Would like additional useful details on IOS163A message

We occasionally see some IOS163A messages like the following:IOS163A CHPID 64 ALERT, NO ASSOCIATED SUBCHANNEL FOR DEVICE Unfortunately that doesn't have enough information for us to immediately act on that message. We must get someone to look at t...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_IOS 1 Future consideration

Request to allow HSM TAPEREPLACE to support Flashcopy SE Dump tapes

Environment: z/OS 1.13, DFSMShsm 1.13, DB2 10, DS8700 with Flashcopy SE, TS7720 VTS. Our plan was to issue the DB2 "BACKUP SYSTEM" command to flashcopy our three production DB2 subsystems. The BACKUP SYSTEM command then issues DFSMShsm FRBACKUP co...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Not under consideration

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