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Full ISPF Support for PDSE V2 Generations

ISPF needs to fully support PDSE V2 generations. Currently ISPF Edit supports creating a new generation when a member is saved but none of the other ISPF services recognize a generation. Access to prior generations is not intuitive and thus effect...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 9 Future consideration

Provide support for Folders or Filtering for Protected Datasets in zOS Change Tracker

If there is a large number of Protected Datasets and a user is only interested in being able to see a selection of them, there is currently no way to create a customised selection (via a Folder or Filtering) of the datasets the user is only intere...
about 2 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Future consideration

REFORMAT REFVTOC should NOT delete VTOC-INDEX prior to a reply 'U' to message ICK508A

Regarding message ICK508A, we understand that a VTOC-INDEX would be built when the reply is ‘U'. However, it is not appropriate to delete the existing VTOC-INDEX before a user answers the message ICK508A. We think that ICKDSF REFORMAT REFVTOC job ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF 2 Under review

DSFS createparm limitations

Currently dsadm createparm has following limitation:The user ID of the issuer of the command must match the HLQ (just the first qualifier) in order to be allowed to save creation parameters for the HLQ directory. We have many technical/application...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 2 Future consideration

Show the correct SCRATCH volume count in ISMF and DFSMSrmm

Today we have a problem to show the SCRATCH volume count in the ISMF panel, because it does not matched the real available scratch volume count in the IBM VTS library manager data base. The problem is the "Delete Expired Volume Data setting". Is t...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Enhance SMS message IGD17279I to better describe file allocation error - the diagnostic code in the message (041A041D) is not useful.

Hello, we recently had an incident with non-VSAM allocation space problems on EAV volumes due to the Dataclass EATTR defaulting to 'blank'. We came across the following message and required IBM support to provide an explanation: IGD17279I 411 VOLU...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Access Methods Non-Vsam 0 Under review

z/OSMF plugin to support SYSPLEX systems with multiple MAS's

We run a 10 system Sysplex and each of these systems has its own JES2 MAS. Currently, the zOSMF Plugin does not have the capability to see all these zOS systems and without this capability, we don't see our site making much use of the zOSMF Plugin.
3 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 1 Not under consideration

SMP/E Root CA certificate change request

Current IBM SMP/E Root certificate, DigiCert Global Root CA, is using weak SHA1 algorithm. We are working on replacing all certificates using SHA1 with much more secure SHA256. Many vendors already switched their SMP/E client certificates to use ...
11 months ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Not under consideration

Create a report to show the unused defaults table entries

If a customer has a large number of VRS definitions he can use the VRSEL report to identify "Unused VRS Definitions" at the end of the report. I have successfully converted a customer with approximate 13.0000 RDS definitions to approximate 13.000 ...
3 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

dsfs/sysout should use stepname.procstepname.ddname

Currently /dsfs/sysout/ ... uses stepname.ddname.something - that can be misleading as multiple steps can use the same ddname - adding the procstepname so it is stepname.procstepname.ddname.something would provide additional granularity and clarity.
5 months ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 3 Future consideration

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