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Printing incorrect VVDS should show some suitable messages.

My customer encountered that printing incorrect VVDS results in RC=04 without any suitable messages. PAGE 0001 5695-DF175 DFSMSDSS V2R03.0 DATA SET SERVICES 2022.286 09:30 PRINT DATASET(SYS1.VVDS.VWAS901) INDYNAM(WORK03) ADR101I (R/I)-RI01 (01...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Full FTP Support for PDSE

FTP should support the transfer of PDS to a PDSE load library. There is no potential loss of data to be incurred from this in the way a PDSE to a PDS would be impacted. Currently this is not supported.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 3 Not under consideration

IXGDELET range including the block in the BLOCKID parameter

Requesting a new option to IXGDELET a range of blocks older than specified in the BLOCKID parameter AND including the block specified in the BLOCKID parameter. Our application has regular cycles of IXGBRWSE READCURSOR and IXGDELET BLOCKS=RANGE to ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Logger 1 Not under consideration

Notify DFSMShsm users when automatic functions do not complete within a specified amount of time.

HSM has automatic functions which run for a certain amount of time that can be varied. At times, an automatic function, such as migration, may get hung and not complete. Provide the capability of noting when a function does not complete within spe...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Planned for future release

Need -w option on z/OS Unix grep command

Update z/OS Unix grep command with the -w option. Here's the failing command being sent from a non-Z Linux host to z/OS Unix for execution: grep -sqwF "$key" "$keyfile" Here's the definition of -w that I have seen: "-w, --word-regexp Select only t...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Planned for future release

Member List - Add Block Line Commands

Allow Member List line commands to be entered in blocks. A block of line commands is marked by entering two forward slashcharacters (//) at the start and end of the block. The required line command is entered on the first or last line of theblock,...
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 5 Future consideration

ISPCCONF - Add PF Key Definitions

Allow the ISPF Configuration Utility to define all 24 PF-Keys for the site.
almost 11 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 6 Not under consideration

EE over IPv6 needs to use the larger MTU of Jumbo OSAs or HiperSockets

When EE goes over IPv4 then it uses the available MTU provided by the OSAs or HiperSockets. Did you know that EE over IPv6 does not? It constrains itself to an MTU of 1100 bytes, even though OSPF is telling us the the available MTU is 8192 for Jum...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide a SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK equivalent via a batch job.

Request a batch utility which would allow you to check BPXPRMxx syntax via a DD for input and route the output to a DD. The benefits would be: (1) Allow any location for input (vs. current SETOMVS SYNTAXCHECK which must come from PARMLIB) and (2) ...
12 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Not under consideration

DFSMShsm Allow different numbers of backup versions and different retention criteria for Unix files within the same ZFS

The ability to use different numbers of backup versions and different retention criteria for Unix files within the same file system is required in DFSMShsm. As it is now in DFSMShsm it's not granular enough, since we require some files and/or dire...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

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