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Generic Naming of Catalog Aliases

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00046369User Marketing Field Requirement Number: JOOS0294001Title: Generic Naming of Catalog AliasesSubmitted By: Yutaka Nikkoh/Japan/IBMOriginators Area: N/A / 81-3-3808-3795FPOC: Barbara McDonald/San Jose/IBM Erika...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 3 Not under consideration

Include new volumes in ISMF statistics o

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00023012User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GO6SMG93033Title: Include new volumes in ISMF statistics on SGsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Barbara McDo...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 2 Future consideration

ISMF: Select Criteria for DASD Based on

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00023810User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GO6SMG93019Title: ISMF: Select Criteria for DASD Based on SMS Status(ie.disnew)Submitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FP...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 3 Future consideration

ISMF: Add parameters to sum and average

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00023812User Marketing Field Requirement Number: GO6SMG93021Title: ISMF: Add parameters to sum and average numeric columnsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: DFNA / 972-447-0298FPOC: Ba...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS ISMF/Naviquest 2 Future consideration

Support MVSLOGIN for non-interactive use

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR00073933User Marketing Field Requirement Number: Title: Support MVSLOGIN for non-interactive userSubmitted By: Kathy Fieber/San Jose/Contr/IBMOriginators Area: SSD / 408-256-7883FPOC: Barbara McDonald/San Jose/IBM Er...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / Network File System (NFS) 2 Planned for future release

Converter/Interpreter JCL Security Check

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0325114051User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSSHARE013507Title: Converter/Interpreter JCL Security CheckingSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MV...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Avoid High SMSVSAM CPU Consumption

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR070413309User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE12038Title: Avoid High SMSVSAM CPU ConsumptionSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC: Larr...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Future consideration

CEAPRMxx must support SMS MGMTCLAS and D

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0716125647User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE12008Title: CEAPRMxx must support SMS MGMTCLAS and DATACLASSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : ...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_CEA 1 Future consideration

Enhance Dynamic Allocation to SMB

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0214053143User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE04524Title: Enhance Dynamic Allocation to SMBSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC: Bria...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Future consideration

Creating Common Dataspaces

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0324085813User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE08001Title: Creating Common DataspacesSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSEFPOC: Brian Keuli...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Storage Management (inc. RSM/ASM/VSM/DIV) 3 Future consideration