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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories ISPF
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 23, 2019

PDSE NOLOAD portion visibility from TSO/ISPF

The standard ISPF utilities in TSO/ISPF do NOT report on NOLOAD portions of PDSE's. This means that TSO/ISPF utilties and panels such as 'Data set Utility' do NOT provide a full and accurate Portrayal of the contents of load libraries and stored as PDSE's. This is particularly critical where vendor solutions use the NOLOAD portions to store additional classes - e.g. DDIO_F classes used in some Compuware Products. The request is to provide users with an option to show / not-show NOLOAD portions in load libs from the standard TSO/ISPF Data set Utility (normally accessed via option 3.2).

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jul 25, 2019

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - ISPF
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - TSO
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None