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DFSMS ICKDSF

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Facility class for ICKDSF miss option adding a generic volume list

In our shop only storage guys are allowed to initialize a volume. Meaning having required access to facility class STGADMIN.ICK.INIT/REFORMAT/etc. So whenever a sysprog want to reformat or init a specific named range of volumes named ie ABC%%% the...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF 2 Future consideration

Provide the ability to create only the volume label on a DASD volume using ICKDSF

We have seen occasions where something is overwriting just the volume label on cylinder 0, track 0 but the remaining data on the volume remains in tact. This causes the volume to be inaccessible along with all of the data on it. There should be a ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS ICKDSF 3 Functionality already exists

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