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Enhance SMS message IGD17279I to better describe file allocation error - the diagnostic code in the message (041A041D) is not useful.

Hello, we recently had an incident with non-VSAM allocation space problems on EAV volumes due to the Dataclass EATTR defaulting to 'blank'. We came across the following message and required IBM support to provide an explanation: IGD17279I 411 VOLU...
2 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Under review

Support extended highlighting in custom health checks

SDSF 3.1 adds a feature for extended highlighting in health check reports. These drastically improve readability of extensive check outputs. Right now, custom health checks are not supported and therefore can't make use of the new feature. SDSF an...
11 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Future consideration

Rust Language Support for z/OS

Rust is a very powerful, memory safe system programming language that would be extremely useful on the mainframe platform. Rust would also be able to use existing z/OS C libraries as it natively supports linking to C libraries. My hope would be s...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 2 Not under consideration

DFSMSdss COPY CONVERT PDS to PDSE V?

Presently, ADRDSSU can only convert a PDS to PDSE Version 1. Would be prudent to be able to choose between PDSE Version 1 and Version 2; especially since IBM recommends Version 2 in most use cases.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 1 Future consideration

Enable 4-Char-Ciphers via environment Variable in Web Enablement Toolkit

Hello there at RFE-Center,we have to use 4-Char Cipher Specs in our zOS Web Client applications. These clients use the z/OS web client enablement toolkit, version 2.4.I know that the toolkit provides the HWTHSET call with the option HWTH_OPT_SSLCI...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / web enablement toolkit 0 Future consideration

REST-API for z/OSMF Storage API for ScratchTape-Monitoring

We have SMS-managed Tapes, so the current value of scratch tapes is visiblein ISMF under TapeLibrary options. We also can use a batch job for counting the scratch tapes.It would be useful, if the current value of scratch tapes would be accessible ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Tape Storage SW Support 2 Future consideration

Support for DCOLLECT and SMF110 in SMF Explorer

Understand that the SMF Explorer isn't supporting all available SMF records. But if SMF Explorer supports DCOLLECT and SMF110, then we can plan to migrate to Python from MXG, as these DCOLLECT and SMF110 are the most important SMF records that we ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer 0 Future consideration

Provide more granularity for control access to different paths under /global/zosmf

There is a need to distinguish between zOSMF ADMIN GROUP (IZUADMIN) and the USS OWNER GROUP of z/OSMF's USER_DIR path. Users defined in the z/OSMF administrator's group (IZUADMIN) should NOT necessarily have access to all the USS directories under...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

ACCEPT, REJECT, RESTORE SYSMODs using Software Update

The ability to ACCEPT, REJECT, and RESTORE SYSMODs using Software Update. Currently requires the user to do it manually outside of the Software Update interface.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / SMP/E 0 Future consideration

DFSMStvs have a hard upper limit set in PARMLIB that cannot be overridden by JCL

Currently the TVSAMCOM in PARMLIB can be overridden by including TVSAMCOM=(n,n) on the JCL EXEC statement. in our case, we've had a couple of instances where an application did not take the default set in PARMLIB and flooded the CF and SMSVSAM wit...
10 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Is a defect

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