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IBM Data Set Commander

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Improve usability for the DSC Batch Wizard

Improve usability by adding Field level help and creation of undefined datasets and validation of existing datasets
about 4 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Improve Data Set Commander IQIBUTIL performance with PDS to PDS copy functions

The IBM Data Set Commander IQIBUTIL utility will copy a PDS to another PDS. This requirement is to improve the CPU and EXCP performance when performing this copy process.
about 4 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 4 Delivered

Add parm=REPALL to IQIBUTIL

Just as there is a REPOLDER parm option to set the default for the INDD/INDSN keywords, a nice to have would be a REPALL option to set the ",R)" as the default.
over 6 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

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 ...
almost 7 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
almost 7 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.
almost 7 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.
about 7 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...
about 7 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.
about 7 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.
over 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

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