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IBM Z Hardware and Operating Systems Ideas Portal


This is the public portal for all IBM Z Hardware and Operating System related offerings. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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DFSMSrmm: Provide option to display info

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR050200569User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS00012Title: DFSMSrmm: Provide option to display information on single screenSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 3 Not under consideration

IEBCOPY Permit Partially Qualified Membe

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1117118014User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SOMVSE87101Title: IEBCOPY Permit Partially Qualified Member NamesSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

Allow LSR Buffer Pools to be allocated i

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0703094738User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS09003Title: Allow LSR Buffer Pools to be allocated in 64-bit StorageSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

DSS - Improve Catalog Search Performance

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0110065441User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS053127Title: DSS - Improve Catalog Search PerformanceSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSSFP...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

Enhance DFSMSdss REN/RENUNC to Generical

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1117084756User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS08005Title: Enhance DFSMSdss REN/RENUNC to Generically Add/Remove LevelsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : ...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

Writing EOF (end-of-file) for non-SMS managed data sets at create time

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1119075920User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS07016Title: Writing EOF (end-of-file) for non-SMS data sets at create time.Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 3 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm: Enhance EDGCNVT To Determine S

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1205007113User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS00030Title: DFSMSrmm: Enhance EDGCNVT To Determine SMS Tape Info From OAMSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP :...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 3 Not under consideration

Improve VSAM NSR Data Buffer Allocation

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0703094737User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS09002Title: Improve VSAM NSR Data Buffer Allocation LogicSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MV...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

DFSMSdss: Support dump/restore for multi

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0910011825User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS01017Title: DFSMSdss: Support dump/restore for multiple paths of an AIX fileSubmitted By: Tony PearsonOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSSFP...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS DSS 3 Not under consideration

DFSMSrmm: Provide ability to ignore ABEN

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR091001187User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS01012Title: DFSMSrmm: Provide ability to ignore ABEND retention for MOD tapesSubmitted By: Mike WoodOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSSFPOC:...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Planned for future release