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Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
27 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

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.
5 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Under review

Data integrity check per dasd volume

Right now, data integrity is very very important in all IT systems. Very often, we would perform dasd volume copy in daily BAU or in system upgrade steps. We need to have a easy to use, straight forward and fast method to compare the data in 2 das...
about 1 month ago in z/OS 0 Under review

Capability to test OSA QDIO infrastructure (MAC and IP address) without IPL'ing a system.

We have run into multiple issues when we change out hardware, where OSAs are not operational when we go to move and operate from our DR site. We need the capability of testing OSA IP address and MAC connectivity to switches without IPL'ing a z/OS ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / I/O and Networking 0 Under review

Have one (instead of multiple) syntax rules for DEVSUPxx

The +-30 statements in DEVSUP are parsed using multiple (at least 2) sets of rules. e.g. some statements are limited to 4 blanks around the equal sign, while others have no limit. The Initialisation and Tuning Reference specifically says blanks ar...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 0 Under review

LE to support volume specification when referencing data sets as files

Allow specification of volume name with file name for services like fopen For example -- to open data set SYS1.PARMLIB member IEAIPL02 on volume D16PK2 as a file specify something like this: "//'SYS1.PARMLIB(IEAIPL02)[D16PK2]'"
about 1 month ago in z/OS / LE 0 Under review

Restore nonEAV dataset to EAV area when not enough nonEAV space

On IBM main a customer attempted a restore of a dataset and failed due to nor enough nonEAV space. Other forum member directed user to Patch area and restored to EAV area with changing to EAV compatible attributes. Suggest an option statement for ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 0 Under review

Allow the use of zOS system symbols in catalog entries

When defining a catalog entry, you can specify VOLUME(&SYM1) for example but not (NAME(HLQ.&SYM1..LLQ)). For that you need a catalog entry then an alias with SYMBOLICRELATE. There are instances where we would find it useful to have a symbo...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 0 Under review

add su logging to TSO 3.4 and TSO 3.17

With z/os 2.5 and PTF for OA62850 applied. we have SYSLOGD configured with the auth.* setting. If I go into OMVS and issue su with a privileged id it gets logged to the SYSLOGD However, if you use TSO OPTION 3.17 or 3.4 and use su I am able to swi...
6 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Under review

Add options for connecting to a decommissioned CPC

When a CPC has been removed (i.e. moving from z15 to z16), it stays in the network for a little while. When doing the HWILIST such as by Broadcom's BCPii feature, it gets this decommissoned CPC and tries to connect. Once it tries the RESTful inter...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 0 Under review

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