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PDS with 4K directory blocks, Load module headers

Current PDS directories are 256 bytes with 8 byte key, so 38 blocks per 3390 track or 9.5K of data. Allowing 4096 bytes with 8 byte key would allow 11 blocks per 3390 track or 44K of data. Current PDS directories only have full blocks until end of...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 1 Not under consideration

We would like job specific tape mount information to review elongated tape mounts

We have BVIR records where elongated tapes mounts have been identified but we need to identify which jobs were impacted. This information would be ideal to have stored in any of the job based SMF records (21s/30s/14s/15s). This information would b...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Update ISRDDN enqueue function to include SYSTEMS and not just LOCAL enqueue

ISRDDN ENQUEUE display only displays local enqueue information.Updating ISRDDN to be able to display SYSPLEX enqueues would make it conisistent with other ISPF services, such as QUERYENQ
about 12 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 4 Not under consideration

Add Service Class to more RMF Records

RMF has always had serviceclass / workload Information in the 72 records. Now more and more records are added with job-Level Detail such as 74.2 XCF member activity and 77 Enqueue activity. To "connect" the jobnames from These records with workloa...
over 9 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 4 Future consideration

IKT00201I - TSO message to the SYSLOG

If IKT00201I was sent to the SYSLOG, it would allow automation to pick up, alert and react to the message. All mainframe customers would be able to automate this message and alert or add TSO users to increase the MAXUSERS, temporarily and be reset...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 2 Not under consideration

Zap a cloned zFS file with the correct audit-file id (auditfid) when it is created

Various auditing routines use the zFS supposedly-unique "file id" as opposed to the filesystem names, and have an issue when one or more datasets in the same shared-filesystem plex are using the same file id. DFDSS is IBM's poster-child for manipu...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Expand RECYCLE command with a new parameter PART (NO/YES)

For DFHSM with HOSTTYPE=FILE only command backup is possible, therefore SETSYS PARTIALTAPE (BACKUP(MARKFULL)) has no effect. Most of virtuell backup volumes therefore remain at status PART. A RECYCLE command (for example: RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCE...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

ICSF: quick rollback to the old master key in case of problems with the coordinated change Master Key

Normally we load the 2 parts of the mk from the TKE. Then from the ICSF we make the option Coordinated xKDS change MK. This process change the new MK in alls systems of the sysplex (re-enchypher included). This process seems very robust. But in ca...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ICSF 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF supplied ftp profiles need to be GDPR compliant

z/OSMF supplied ftp profiles can't be modified to require passwords (per GDPR compliance) and can't be removed. They are useless now and confusing, as they can't be removed and can't be modified.
about 6 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Future consideration

Legacy ISPF Gateway honors CGI_ISP* over _CMDSERV_*_HOME (or that the ship ISPXZENV to delete _CMDSERV_*_HOME).

Allow for flexibility of application developer to set CGI_ISPCONF and CGI_ISPWORK variables in their Groovy build scripts.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

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