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DFSMS RMM

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Introduce validation to not allow invalid characters in the DSNAME field in VRS

Although DFSMSrmm does not check quoted data set names for valid characters (per TSO RMM ADDVRS command doc), it would be beneficial to not allow invalid characters in the DSNAME field of a VRS because the accidental creation of a VRS with certain...
16 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Introduce RMM defaults table (DEFTABLE) operand that can request DFSMSrmm record the data set details only for the first file on a tape volume.

The EDG_EXIT100 parameter list has an input value PL100_CAN_IGNORE_FILE2_TON that can be used to request that DFSMSrmm record the data set details only for the first file on a tape volume. This is useful to help minimize the overall size of the RM...
11 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

DFSMSrmm cleanup data set records

Most customers today are using VTS to create tapes. When the tapes go scratch, after x number of days, the data is usually deleted from the VTS. For example this is the case with TS77xx EXPIRY-HOLD=x days, meaning after RMM has scratch the tape, t...
18 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

DFSMSrmm ONLYIF with BEGIN and END

Currently ONLYIF support in EDGRMMxx and DEFTABLE effects the next command/parameter, for every paramter/command you would require an ONLYIF statement. By providing support that includes a block of commands/statement, will reduce the size and comp...
30 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

Add fuction: RMM CV command to change sysid with FORCE

Add fuction: RMM CV command to change the assigned SYSID with FORCE If a customer is running multiple LPARs that are sharing a CDS, we generally see CATSYSID(*) but if a customer is running multiple LPARS and not sharing the CDS, the SYSID could l...
25 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

add the search volume command (sv) on assigned SYSTEM ID

We can display the assigned system ID and would be good to have the fuction to do a search by the assigned SYSTEM ID For example: Creation: Date = 2021/287 Time = 09:33:18 System ID = IBM1 Assign: Date = 2024/349 Time = 09:20:56 System ID = SYSTEM...
25 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Introduce RMM defaults table (DEFTABLE) operand that can request DFSMSrmm record the data set details only for the first file on a tape volume.

The EDG_EXIT100 parameter list has a PL100_CAN_IGNORE_FILE2_TON value that can be used to request that DFSMSrmm record the data set details only for the first file on a tape volume. This is useful to help minimize the overall size of the RMM Contr...
14 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future 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 ...
5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration