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The TSO-RCEIVE command force DSNTYPE=LARGE for datasets larger than 2Gb. Bypass this to let SMS to allocate the ds.

TSO-RECEIVE command force DSNTYPE=LARGE for datasets larger than 2Gb. This causes that the receiveing dataset allocation is forced to DASD instead of being managed by DFSMS routines.Specially for large datasets might be useful to allocate them on ...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / TSO 1 Future consideration

Upgrade TSO STATUS command to support JES JOBGROUP

The TSO STATUS command is used to find the status of jobs previously submitted to JES. With z/OS 2.2, JES was enhanced with a new feature call JOBGROUPs. This feature allows jobs to be grouped together. Currently the STATUS command has very rudime...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / TSO 0 Future consideration

Provide RMF metric id for every individual data object.

All data returned for an RMF DDS Report Request should also be available as single metric.
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Future consideration

Supply QUIESCE / RESUME command for an Application Instance VIPA

To prevent the broadcast of a Application Instance VIPA, we would like to have a similar QUIESCE / RESUME command as available for Sysplex Distributed VIPA. Example command:V TCPIP,,QUIESCE,JOBNAME=ABCDEF and to resume (broadcast the IP address) w...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

Remove restriction on MVS files being closed when a thread ends

Knowledge Center documents the restriction that "All MVS files opened from a given thread and still open when the thread is terminated are closed automatically by the library during thread termination." (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / LE 1 Not under consideration

Make Abends in CBRUXSAE (OAM security exit) visible

As OAM is a crucial product component at our site we use a SITE developed version of OAM security exit CBRUXSAE. There could be circumstances, where this code can abend. Unfortunately the very only result is, that the requestor gets an unsuccessfu...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OAM 2 Not under consideration

Serialization at dataset instead of VTOC for DSS DEFRAG

We use an alternative defrag solution today and are interested in vendor consolidation - using IBM's built in DSS tool would allow us to simplify our Mainframe environment.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Future consideration

Allow SID on OUTDD for IFASMFDL program

System: SMF Logstream Dump programActor: Any user of SMF data IFASMFDL program is used to dump SMF data from logstreams. Description IFASMFDL program does not allow SID on the OUTDD statement. Multiple jobs have to run to dump unique SID to separa...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_SMF 2 Future consideration

Update RVARY response to distinguish RACF deactivate vs database deactivate

This request is to get the ICH702A message/WTOR updated to be able to distinguish between RACF being deactivated and a RACF database being deactivated. Whether it is a new message or updating the text in the message does not matter. The reason for...
about 7 years ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Not under consideration

z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.

Hello, z/OSMF is lacking by not supporting a valid Policy Agent construct, PortGroup.
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration

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