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IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS

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Address VOL=REF=

Current TAAM is not able to address VOL=REF=* option for allocation. But competitor has it. Hence, as like TAAM already built an option SET_UNIT_AFFINITY (to care UNIT=AFF=*), how about to build new option, so called SET_VOL_REF to care VOL=REF=* ?
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide ISPF option to display active RULEDEFS with line match data for debug

Advanced Allocation Management provides an ISPF option to display the contents of the current RULEDEFS member. Since the product RULEDEFS can be dynamically refreshed it would also be good to be able to display the current actual rule definitions ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Examples in user guide

It is not an enhancement request, but I could not find any other source to send feedback. It would be nice if examples and sample JCLs can be coded in the manual along with the syntax of various functions like explore and generate.
about 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide dataset allocation factor to TAAM for z/OS

UBISS is a CA ALLOCATE user. We want to substitute it with our TAAM and we need to match the following functionality .CA Allocate has a function that allows to allocate a dataset starting from the characteristics and definitions of another existin...
about 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 2 Future consideration

TAAM cambio en allocación de fichero de syntax check, permita HLQ

TAAM cambio en allocación de fichero de syntax check, permita HLQ, ya que si no, es necesario incluir en las rutinas de SMS el perfil userid.ALLOCOPT.SYNTAX
about 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Multiple GLO2123I messages caused multiple incident ticket to be created

DBS Bank is using GLO2123I messages to automatically create an incident record in the incident/event management system however due to multiple GLO2123I messages generated by TAAM, i.e. one message per action taken caused multiple incident records ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

None information is provided when a storage issue happens in a file which has been excluded according to the product rules.

In a scenario where a DSN is not marked as to be managed by TAAM (it is excluded), there is no message in the joblog that informs about the exclusion. Therefore the user does not know if the problem happens in SMS or it is because TAAM is not inst...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add ERASE/NOERASE support to AAM

Client requires the ability to force NOERASE on VSAM allocations to insure HSM can perform normal migration processing.
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow AAM to override/set secondary allocation based on primary

When migration from alternative products to AAM we sometimes encounter the situation where the existing product overrides a secondary allocation based on the value of the primary allocation. AAM can increase, deccrease and add secondary allocation...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Adjusting the total allocation size

ACS/STOP-X37EX has the function to monitor the total allocation size and suppress it, as the parameter SIZE-T-ALL.Would you add the same function to IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management(ITAAM)? We are persuading to replace STOP-X37 to ITAAM, ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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