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IBM Data Set Commander

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Add a member scroll option in All IBMDSC defaults, or honor the setting from ISPF

Current MSL behavior is to show the most recently processed (by a line command) member name at the top of the screen. We would like DSC can honor the Scroll member list ON/OFF setting in ISPF, ie. stop member list scrolling when exit from process ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

DSC LLA Monitor should refresh LLA directory entries of members that are updated via FTP

We are using FTP to move changed modules from the dev lpar to the prod lpar. We'd like IQIMONTR to react to the module changes in linklisted datasets and issue an LLA REFRESH command. FTP creates a SMF119 record.
about 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Provide an option for storing members with ISPF statistics from any source

Provide an option for storing members with ISPF statistics from different sources:- SDSF EDIT session (via command "SJ") .- From REXX or ISPF exec/clist
over 6 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

IQIBUTIL set stats option addition

IQIBUTIL currently is lacking an option to set the stats on for members that currently do not have stats.
over 6 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

add an IQIBUTIL "SYNC" type function

add function to delete target data set members that do not exist in the source data set.
over 6 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

DSC display storage group name via a volume display command

We converted from CA PDSMAN to IBM Dataset Commander. PDSMAN had a function where you could list a volume and see the storage group it resided in along with other information. This functionality is not available in DSC. We can see the storage grou...
over 6 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

DSC member rename leaves orphaned member generations

rename of a pdse member generation 0 leaves orphaned generations -1, -2, -3 and so on.
over 6 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Validate PDS directory entries

PDS libraries can become corrupted, where the directory entries are not pointing to the correct location of a module. This requirement is to add a "VALIDATE" function to Data Set Commander, which will determine if a PDS library is valid. This comm...
over 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

Report LLA managed members with mismatched directory entries

Wells Fargo has requested we show mismatched LLA members with the IBM Data Set Commander. This allows one to determine if a "synchronization" is required for members.
over 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

DSC needs an "EXTRACT" option for "I" information and others

Using DSC to display the a load modules information (amblist type) needs an option to "extract" this info to a data set and/or sysout.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 1 Delivered

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