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Provide common APIs in support of PDSE Member Generations

We know member generations are useful but to access them requires a lot of work, especially from the open environment. By providing a set of common APIs current, i.e. REXX, and new, i.e.Perl, python, etc. will be able to easily work with member ge...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 3 Not under consideration

Support VS-CODE for editing native (Rexx, HLASM, etc.) CMS files

Currently VS CODE supports editing z/OS datasets on a workstation via the z/OSMF facility. CMS developers would benefit from having the same capabilities for editing CMS files using VS-CODE and its toolsets.
over 1 year ago in z/VM 1 Not under consideration

To have the ODTitle field as an option to the OFLDS

Our printing team manages output utilizing the ODTitle among other fields which was available with the Q command in z/OS V2.4 but removed in V.5 in favor of the JDS panel. They utilize the O panel more than the JDS panel to accomplish their workload.
4 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 1 Not under consideration

Uncatalog and Forceexpire incomplete residual datasets when a multivol-multidataset chain is broken by HSKP in RETAINBY(VOL) environment

If in a tape chain are present dataset with different retain date due to different VRS, and parmlib option is RETAINBY(VOL), it is possible to have chunks of an expired dataset in the first or last position of the retained tape, because PREVVOL or...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Check pending structures and perform structures' rebuild more easily when activating a CFRM policy from z/OSMF

When activating a new CFRM policy, sometimes the change remains pending if CF resources are allocated for the structures being modified. Reallocate or structure rebuild is needed in order for the pending policy change to take effect. However, with...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

DFSMSsms ACS provide &OLDNAME variable during ACSENVIR=RENAME in MGMTCLAS

During SMS &ACSENVIR='RENAME' processing there is currently no ability in the MGMTCLAS routine to check what the original dataset name is, you only have the newname in the &DSN variable. This means that inappropriate renames cannot be prev...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 3 Not under consideration

Improve the copy services tasks management of ANTMAIN to avoid some tasks interfere with other tasks

During the implementation of TCT (transparent cloud tiering) with HSM and DS8K my customer caused an incident that stopped all jobs using ADRDSSU to complete and to be cancelled. The current maxtask value (42) of ANTMAIN was reached because the mi...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SDM 1 Future consideration

Allow a signed workflow definition to reside on a remote system

We keep our workflow (WF) definitions on one system, and then pull them from various systems around the globe when creating WF instances. We want to be able to have a zOS related WF that calls a DB2 related WF (example: bind some packages). Both W...
8 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Create Health Check for Hardware Messages

We would like to have a health check for hardware messages on HMC. For example, when an RSF service call fails for some reason, it will be reported on HMC but we would like to see an exception on health check panel to. In our installation the HMCs...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Not under consideration

Create Alias for all datasets when installing new z/OS

Hi Last time I installed z/OS 2.5 all datasets was defined with an Alias but not this time with install of z/OS 3.1. the answer I got from case TS014843200 was: Its working as designed. Data sets which can be referenced using the volume, like PDSe...
12 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 2 Future consideration

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