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Enable ISPF services to support PDSE Member Generations

LMMLIST and LMMCOPY along with LMMDISP should support PDSE Member Generations if they exist in the referenced PDSE.
6 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance DSFS to support Migrated z/OS Datasets

Ed Jaffe on the ibm-main listserv pointed out that using dsfs any DFSMShsm migrated data sets were not available. This is a critical oversight as DFSMShsm is still very heavily used. DSFS needs to be able to recognize data sets in a migrated state...
12 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 2 Future consideration

Enhance ISPF Services to Dynamically Support 8 Character Userids

Today the user code is responsible to determine if the userid is 8 characters and thus require, in the case of LMMSTATS the use of USER8, instead of the USER keyword. The service should be able to determine this dynamically so the developer using ...
4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

Concurrent Copy SDM_TE search enhancement

The Concurrent Copy SDM_TE searches get worse the more Point-In-Time track images are stored in the ANTMAIN dataspaces. This delays the Concurrent Copy request past the expected completion time. In our case, what was expected to be 5 to 6 hours of...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 0 Future consideration

A JES2 Policy that scans JCL cards is required

Submitted By: SHARE-MVSE Submitted Date: 02/05/2023 Submitter Name: Mike Shorkend (System Software Specialist) Submitter Email: mike@shorkend.com Description: The same way as JES2 provides exits 4/54 to scan all JCL cards for a job, this is needed...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

Enhance zfsadm shrink command

Enhance zfsadm shrink command to give the new size not only in K-bytes but also by a percentage value based on the current size. For example a value of 50 to reduce to half the size. This would allow to have an automated process to reduce size of ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 2 Future consideration

Provide an ISPF PANEL VER type of PATH

With the growth of files in USS and ISPF dialogs that can work with them, there needs to be an ISPF Panel verification option to verify the PATH in the same way that DSNAME can be verified.
4 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Allow programmatic determination if a zIIP engine is online temporarily for System Recovery Boost

We have had several customer requests for determining if a zIIP engine is online due to a System Recovery Boost or not (to prevent accidental activation in an LPAR). Currently the only way of doing this is by issuing a D M=CPU operator command and...
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 0 Planned for future release

New Resource Group based on available capacity (System Scope)

All Resource Groups available today are towards a defined amount of CPU / MSU / Service units and, once defined, are flat. It would be useful for us to have the ability to define a resource group that varies with the system utilization. One use ca...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / BCP_WLM 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to filter and entirely exclude different Hardware Messages from being presented at all on the HMC.

Every day use of OOCoD records to increase and/or decrease capacity on demand creates multiple alerts with the following text: "One or more profiles have been modified because the upgrade data has been restored". Our operations team has to acknowl...
2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Future consideration

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