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Display FMID for datasets being deployed in a server pack

When doing installation of a server pack with many hundred of dataset it's not easy to know what product the dataset belongs to. There for it would be very useful to display FMID & a description of the product in a column to make it easier to ...
12 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

Enhance LISTDSI to display number of generations for PDSE V2 with member generations

LISTDSI should be enhanced to display the number of member generations for a PDSE V2 file with member generation support.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / TSO 4 Future consideration

Improve error reporting/LOGREC records associated with OBTAIN failure

We recently experienced an issue that involved VTOC corruption which required a ZAP to fix the VTOC. When the error occurred and was reported, there were messages and a LOGREC record that identified the volume involved, but there was no way to kno...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 0 Future consideration

CDA plugin on Zosmf

We're using CDA (DHSMS) more and more to feed S3 Buckets that are managed by colleagues on OPEN teams who are less at ease with the z/OS world.They'd like to be able to use z/osmf to list the Buckets defined for a user and possibly enter the acces...
4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Future consideration

RRSF: Password/passphrase re-synchronization

With the implementation of RRSF, it is possible to synchronize a user's password/passphrase between different RACF databases. Due to various technical reasons, sometimes a user's password/passphrase may get out of sync in such a RRSF environmen...
4 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Not under consideration

RMM catsynch verify error listing

PGM=EDGHSKP,PARM='CATSYNCH,VERIFY' takes a SVC dump.Unfortunately, you have to find out why!The cause seem to be orphaned "rename in Progress" data sets.RMM message data set contains Information:EDG2237E CATALOG SEARCH INTERFACE REQUEST FAILED RET...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Planned for future release

Add GEN as an option to LMMDISP

Add the GEN option which EDIT service has, to LMMDISP service too.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Improve performance of ISPF LMDLIST Service

We have multiple applications that make use of the ISPF LMDLIST service with STATS(YES) to obtain a list of datasets and their attributes. The dataset list can contain numerous entries that has been observed exceeding 32,000 at times. Current LMDL...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

Health check IBMRRS,RRS_RMDOFFLOADSIZE false exception

Even after changing the logstream LS_SIZE and rebuild the structure, meaning new offload datasets will be created with the new size, the check still gives an exception incorrectly stating that "Multiple offload data sets" might be created on an of...
4 months ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

ISPF 3.4 / DSLIST - change S line command to browse or view the data set

Under ISPF, 3.4 option or DSLIST, if you use the S line command to select a data set it shows a shorter version of the Data Set Information panel. My suggestion is to change the S line command to browse or view the data set. Or at least, give us t...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Future consideration

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