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IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS

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Tivoli Advance Allocation Management - Handling DB2 datasets

Implement function to handle datasets crated by DB2 regions.
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include a some kind of message or mechanism to show in the log how many extents the data set has

1. A parm to set from how many extents the message will be recorded in the log;2. Based on parm from the item 1 the message will be triggered to be showed in the log. Example: If I set the parm to 200, and if the data set has 200 extents the messa...
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Introduce FIRST volume selection option to primary space allocation

TAAM goes on evaluating volumes one by one to find out the best volume to allocate primary space for submitted Job .If a large number of volumes were needed to evaluate by TAAM, it took quite a long time . In some batch job cases took 10 to 20 min...
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Trailing Quote

AAM requires the trailing quote be entered to complete the data set name on the control member panel. ISPF applications commonly making the trailing quote mark optional to improve ease of use. AAM will issue a confusing error message indicating th...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Variable re-use

The AAM ISPF dialogs should remember last used dataset names and entries to improve usability. Especially the control member dialogs.
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Short Message Support

When performing functions under the control member management menu it would be good if the product took advantage of the ISPF short message field to indicate actions like member saved, syntax check successful, unsuccessful, Etc.
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable exclude logic when defining a VGRP to AAM

When defining a VGRP to AAM it is only possible to define volsers and volser masks to include in the definition. AAM syntax should also allow volsers and volser masks to be excluded to simplify syntax.
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
over 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

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