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DFSMS RMM

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RMM shall keep Vol/Dataset information for all volumes, till TS77* Expire-Hold is reached

TS77* LWorm data set and volume information are cleared when scratch. This information is very important when volumes are deleted by accident.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Delivered

Display the CATSYSIDs in LISTCONTROL OPTION specified in EDGRMMxx parmlib member.

Today there is no possibility to display the CATSYSIDs specified in EDGRMMxx parmlib member. The RMM LISTCONTROL OPTION subcommand shows only one of SET, NOSET or * (Asterisk) . As for all other settings the list of systems should be shown.
over 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

Lock tape creation until DFSMSRMM is running

When the DFSMSRMM initialization routine is defined in the parmlib IEFSSNxx member, it should lock tape creation even if the product is not enabled by the parmlib IFAPRDxx member. It would only be locked until DFRMM is recording.
over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Delivered

RMM should surface reason volumes are not returned to scratch

Technote Reference #: S1000836 currently documents the process one needs to go through when attempting to determine why a particular logical volume was not returned to scratch during the last housekeeping run. Just going through those steps for a ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Delivered

RMM z/OSMF Plug-in setting

I'm missing a possibility to customize the name of the REXX library containing the REXX procedure used by the plug-in. The plug-in expect that the SYS1. SEDGEXE1 exist and is available. In our installation we do a merge of some common libraries – ...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

Project to replace CA TLMS wih IBM DFSMS /rmm

An Italy bank is a new GTS outsourcing customer. The Transition and Transformation project is currently underway. IBM GTS has started a Project to replace CA TLMS with IBM RMM. We opened the PMR 20595 and we request an RFE to modify IBM RMM code. ...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

Add parmlib support to enforce DSN RACHECK when IGNORE processing is requested

Currently when the end user specifies IGNORE processing the dataset name check is bypassed. DFSMSrmm should introduce a parmlib parameter to enforce the dataset name check even when IGNORE processing is requested. This would allow better security ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

RMM should support adding scratch tapes without a physical VTS connection

When we test our disaster recovery process we need to quickly add scratch volumes to a large number of RMM plexes (around 40) prior to bringing tape processing online in those test LPAR's. This is due to the fact that IBM's TS7700 flash copy proce...
over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Delivered

DFSMSrmm EDGHSKP hold function

Currently, if we wanted to hold RMM EDGHSKP functions, we are not able to do this. F DFRMM,HOLD(HSKP) would only allow you to hold the HSKP function if it was running at the time, but, does not prevent any NEW future HSKP. There is HOLD(ALL) and H...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 6 Delivered

DFSMSrmm: Display ALL CDS fields in dial

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR050200540User Marketing Field Requirement Number: SSMVSS00010Title: DFSMSrmm: Display ALL CDS fields in dialog and TSO RMM LIST cmdsSubmitted By: IBM User Group Relations/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: UGDIV : S UGGROUP...
over 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 3 Delivered