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Provide the ability to create only the volume label on a DASD volume using ICKDSF

We have seen occasions where something is overwriting just the volume label on cylinder 0, track 0 but the remaining data on the volume remains in tact. This causes the volume to be inaccessible along with all of the data on it. There should be a ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF 3 Functionality already exists

PDSE resource contention in a multi-tasking TSO BATCH environment

This is a former DCR MR0923135057 issued on 23th September 2013 and public RFE of private RFE 47867. According IBM this is already in implementation of next z/OS release. Under the existing z/OS architecture accessing a PDSE resource in a multi-ta...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / TSO 3 Future consideration

Keep owner of .sh_history on shell initialization

On shell initialization the .sh_history in the home directory is recreated (with the previous content) and the owner is set to the current UID, that started the process. This leads to problems, if the user changed his UID (e.g. switched to UID=0) ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 1 Future consideration

SRCHFOR within SDSF

ISPF allows the use of a SRCHFOR primary command from the data set list. The command will search for text within each data set in the list and identify which data sets contain the text. SDSF should support a SRCHFOR command to search the job steps...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 5 Not under consideration

The user must have the ability to keep a dataset in zEDC compressed format during a copy or a transfer of the dataset.

I would like to have a way to request access method to avoid decompression of a zedc compressed dataset when using it, for example via a jcl option. This would avoid unnecessary compression - decompression when dataset are accessed by product doin...
about 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Planned for future release

Message & SMF record needed when RACDCERT automatically replaces / deletes a certificate

When adding a certificate to RACF that qualifies to replace an existing certificate, a message and SMF record is needed indicating that this took place. For example : "Certificate with label xxx was replaced by this certificate <with label yyy&...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 2 Not under consideration

DFRMM ABENDU0006: handling I/O errors to the CDS

RMM issues an ABENDU0006 to indicate that a problem was encountered when trying to perform I/O to the RMM control data set. In some cases this abend is not needed and could be handled in a less disruptive way that does not require customer interve...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

syntaxcheck

We would like to request extend syntaxcheck by including 'PARM(...)' checking also when syntaxcheck for bpxprm is executed.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / USS 2 Future consideration

Update OSPF,LIST,ALL display to include ABR status

Update the D TCPIP,,OSPF,LIST,ALL command to add a status YES/NO of whether the given OMPROUTE instance is operating as an OSPF area border router. There doesn't appear to be any existing indication of this other than knowing that there are interf...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Add Warning Message to OMPROUTE When Adapter Unexpectedly Attaches to OSPF Area 0.0.0.0

An EZZxxxxx message should be issued by OMPROUTE when an OSPF interface attaches to area 0.0.0.0 by taking the default value of Attaches_to_Area under OSPF_Interface because it was not specified. Creating a warning message when this situation occu...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

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