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Improve the OMVS CP command performance

The current cp command is painfully slow when used to copy all members of a PDS in either direction (z/OS PDS to USS or vice versa). It appears the command does an Alloc/Open/Copy/Close/Free for *EACH* member when it should do Alloc/Open/copy each...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 7 Future consideration

IFASMFDL RC=8 when error in LOGSTREAM

When there is an error when reading the LOGSTREAM, so that it is not safe that all requested data is present, the return code should be 8 instead of 4 because RC=4 indicate only a warning.RC=8 indicate an error. In our case we got a MSG 'IFA819I E...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

DSS BUILDSA support for CD/DVD.

We have z/OS 1.12 and z/OS 1.13 and just migrated from old standalone 3490 tapes to IBM tape library TS3500 using 4tbyte tapes. We are getting ready to build our DFSMSdss Stand-Alone restore and was looking for alternative options to store the IPL...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 5 Future consideration

Replace some of the basic IEFUTL functionality with PARMLIB parameters

Everyone is trying to reduce their reliance on assembler exits due to the lack of assembler resource available these days. We use IEFUTL to override when batch jobs are cancelled by the JWT parameter in SMFPRMxx and nothing more. I'm sure it would...
about 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 0 Future consideration

Duplicate key error can occur when copying with two different jobs at the same time with DFSMSdss-copy

Duplicate key error can occur when copying with two different jobs at the same time with DFSMSdss-copy datasets whose names start with the same 3 qualifiers and are on the same volume.This can occur if 2 different jobs try to move 2 different data...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

DFSMSdss DUMP & RESTORE without data

Allow DFDSS DUMP & RESTORE to run with a 'NO DATA' option so that all the selected dataset attributes are DUMP'd but without any data. And then the RESTORE function should have an option to allocate the source datasets within any DUMP (whether...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 4 Future consideration

a way to have ZOSMF workflow Jobs unique names

There should be a way,a variable, a symbolic, that Customer can use in their JOBCARD for Jobname,where the jobs generated from the workflow, once the jobcard information is propagated, .. each job will have the correct JOBNAME as intended by IBM.
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Order/Distr/Install 2 Future consideration

Support SHAREOPTIONS when creating a VSAM with JCL

We are trying to use the JCL DD statement to create some VSAM Data Sets to remove the extra IDCAMS DEFINE steps in some jobs. It is working quite well, especially if we are using the LIKE parameter to get most of the properties from 'model' VSAMs....
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Future consideration

Be able to enforce use of FCTOPPRCPRIMARY(PRESMIRREQ) when FASTREPLICATION(PREF) or FASTREPLICATION(REQ) is specified

In a GDPS Metro Mirror environment, use of FASTREPLICATION can lead to devices going into duplex pending state, causing the system to be unable to perform a hyperswap. When FASTREPLICATION(REQ) or FASTREPLICATION(PREF) is in place (either specifie...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Changing "PRI/SEC/DIR BLKS" during a Deployment operation in z/OSMF Software Management

Using the CustomPac ISPF Dialogs, we previously had the ability to change the dataset allocations for PDS/ZFS datasets shipped via ServerPac to allow for local growth, removal of secondaries & increase of dir blocks. As zOS 2.5 is now shipped ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS General/Unknown 2 Future consideration

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