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Have HSM display unambiguous dates.

I live in South Africa, support customers in the UK, running an American operating system. HLIST of a migrated dataset displays both the migration date and the last reference date. However, both these dates have the format xx/yy/zz, with no explan...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Allow the same file name (indirectly volser cataloged) to be mounted to different mountpoints in a shared fileysystem

The ability to mount the same name filesystem (indirectly cataloged) to different version mountpoints would simplify deployment for me.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / USS 0 Future consideration

DFSORT Y2x fields WTO or SMF field

We need a way to identify all DFSORT job steps using Y2x fields. We want to get away from using 2-digit years and the need to periodically update the Y2PAST/CENTURY/CENTWIN global options. For this we need to take an inventory of what is actually ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DFSORT 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK

The PARMLIB(BPXPRM00) member is shared between two partitions (SQA1 and SQT1) of the same sysplex. It contains the following mount command among others: MOUNT FILESYSTEM('SYSB.PHAP850.UNIX.&SYSNAME..HTTPSRVR') TYPE(HFS) MODE(RDWR) MOUNTPOINT('...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

ISPF MSGID State Variable

ISPF provides the ability via the command line to change the setting of the MSGID state which determines if the message ID is displayed with the ISPF messages. There is currently no way to programmatically determine the current state or to change ...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Future consideration

JES2 health monitor for converter tasks

JES2 health monitor task should detect that all of the converter TCBs are in a long wait and issue an appropriate error message.
over 9 years ago in z/OS / JES2 2 Future consideration

IEE707I Should show more than first 8 Bytes of the input verb

Because the message only shows the first 8 Bytes of the input verb, the message shows partial information that can be unusefull or misleading.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Consoles 1 Future consideration

Support the use of data set "wildcard" names within the z/OS Change Tracker product

Today, the z/OS Change Tracker interface allows "wildcard" data set names to produce a list of specific data set names, which are then populated in the z/OS Change Tracker data base. If a new data set were added to z/OS that falls into the data se...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 1 Future consideration

Have JCL symbol for PDS submitted from

Have a JCL symbol to be the PDS where a job was submitted from. so I can have JCL like//MYJOB JOB// INCLUDE &mypds(DEFS)
over 4 years ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

ADRDSSU move multivolume file to new SMS volumes preserving original allocation

I would like to have the capability to use DFDSS to move a multivolume file from one SMS pool to another and do not consolidate or manipulate the allocation. If I have a 4 volume file when moved I would like the target to be on four volumes regard...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

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