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IBM Data Set Commander

Descriptive Update of LLA Module in DSCMON SYSLOG/IQIMTMSG DD

When a LOADLIB's LLA activity is managed by DSC the module that was affected by LLA shows up in the SYSLOG/IQIMTMSG output DD of the DSC monitor. However, it only gives you the module(s) name but not the type of update. It would be very informativ...
29 days ago in IBM Data Set Commander Delivered

add PROCLIB option to OLSYS

OLSYS for PROCLIB would show the jes2 proclib concatenations in use (proc00, proc01, etc) similar to that of PARMLIB.
4 months ago in IBM Data Set Commander Delivered

FINDTEXT set limits for member records to be searched

example: "findtext ver(z038)" but only search in records 1-10 and not all records of a member. useful when one does not want to search all records of a member. speeds the search. uses less resources, etc
4 months ago in IBM Data Set Commander Delivered

support binder date for pdse member generations

a pdse member generation 0 one can see the binder date but with other generations (-1, -2 etc), this information is not available (using Data Set Commander)
over 1 year ago in IBM Data Set Commander Delivered

Batch Job Wizard support of multi-action job stream

Currently only one function can be generated via the batch wizard. One is unable to generate multiple commands as may be needed.
over 1 year ago in IBM Data Set Commander Delivered

add the ability to select/exclude/delete/etc all non-standard member names via ispf/batch

Billions of non-standard member names exist in load libraries created by Endevor.
about 1 year ago in IBM Data Set Commander Delivered

Allow REPLTEXT to be used on sequential files via batch IQIBUTIL

While this works fine for PDS members, it is not allowed to be used on sequential files which limits the use of this function via batch jobs.
about 1 year ago in IBM Data Set Commander Delivered

OLSMS display refinements to storage group TOTALs

The current information displayed can be inaccurate when volumes in the storage group are in a Disabled or Quiesced state.
over 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander Delivered

Eliminate need for SYSUT3 in IQIBUTIL JCL

Sometimes when running IQIBUTIL (IEBCOPY replacement) it will fail and require the coding of the SYSUT3 work dataset in order for the copy to complete. This is troublesome when it is only sometimes needed and jobs will sometimes work but then fail...
about 4 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander Delivered

Disallow edit/save of PDSE generated members

Add a site-wide option to not allow users to save changes to a non-zero PDSE generation (-1, -2, etc.). Also be able to restrict the SAVE NOGEN option. We need to secure these options and not allow users to change the options. Ideally these option...
over 4 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander Delivered