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Restore a non SMS extended addressable LDS to an SMS managed Volume

Per error message in the log: Issue :0ADR971E (001)-FDSRL(04), LOGICAL RESTORE FOR CLUSTER ISV.JAVA.V11.OMVS.JAVAROOT IN CATALOG ICFCAT.SHR.ISV FAILED, 8 Error: The source data set is a NONSMS extended addressable VSAM LDS and the target data set ...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

RHEL9 support: mgmt node

RHEL9 support including mgmt node and compute node
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

We need remove the limitation on AIX for the VSAM

My client has larger Index they are not able to accommodate all the index in VSAM if we increase the AIX limitation more then 32,768 it will help the client
7 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Define Volumes as first step in z/OSMF Serverpac Deployment

It would be helpful to provide the capability in z/OSMF, as part of a Serverpac install, to add a step that defines and builds ICKDSF JCL to initialize volume names which will be used in the Deployment Checklist step, to assign datasets to a speci...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

In traditional ISPF at LOGON time, you can select a COMMAND to be executed. I noticed when I LOGON to TSO through ZOSMF, there is NOT a COMMAND field to enter. As a result, my current LOGON proc fails. Can you allow a COMMAND to be entered through ZOSMF?

It is useful because I cannot logon to TSO currently with my LOGON proc through ZOSMF. We do NOT want to have to create SPECIAL procs.
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Test General

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 05/10/2022 Submitter Name: Meredith Halperin (IT Manager) Description: Testing Aha integration
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_General 1 Not under consideration

Ability for BINDER to tag ALIAS zfs files

It would be useful if it was possible for the BINDER to be able to tag the zFS file that has been created during its processing (chtag). If ALIAS is specified and points to a zFS location an untagged file will be created. Since the binder only pro...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / Program Management/Binder 0 Future consideration

increase RACF password interval to 365 days for the setropts settings

we would like to follow NIST guideline of a 365 day password interval. we want to change the Password change interval 60. This string indicates the maximum number of days passwords remains valid (due to a SETROPTS PASSWORD(INTERVAL) command). It c...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

add both compression and encryption support for OAM.

This is so the statement, Pervasive Encryption, is true. Not sure why this was missed in the first place, OAM must support compression and encryption so data can be protected.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 1 Future consideration

IARV64 LIST service to return storage sensitivity in the returned area mapped by the IAXV64WA dsect.

This change will can be used for determining which memory objects have been marked 'sensitive'.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 0 Future consideration

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