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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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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

Consistency for MOD between SMS and non-SMS managed data sets

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1119075921User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS07017Title: Consistency for MOD between SMS and non-SMSSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS UGPROJ : MVSS...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS OCEOV 3 Future consideration

IEBCOPY Messages should indicate severit

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0110123345User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE11069Title: IEBCOPY Messages should indicate severity with type I W ESubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP : MVS...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

Messages From TSO/E RENAME Should Displa

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR0903133741User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSE13011Title: Messages From TSO/E RENAME Should Display Fully Qualified DSNSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP :...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Future consideration

Default value for Advertise_VIPA_Routes

Since VIPA is a common implementation for most of the enterprisenetworks, and the setting of Advertise_VIPA_Routes with SUBNET isnot appropriate for VIPA, the default value of HOST_ANY_SUBNETseems not appropriate. In addition, the Advertise_VIPA_R...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Not under consideration