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Wrong record line numbers when a record number starting position is specified

If, from the File Manager, we access a file using the line number (300 for example) the line numbers are not from 0 to 483 (there are 483 lines in the file) but from 1 to 184 (299 lines were dropped).
over 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RAS - Tracing ICAL data in the '6701' log record

DFSDLA30 produces very nice LA3A and LA3B trace records for DC calls. But ICAL does no go through there - it goes through DFSDLA40 which produces no trace records.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 1 Not under consideration

Process tape queue in between dumps

In the case of excessive dumping, we would like to see a change where IBM will drain or process some of the tape queue in between each dump. IBM reviewed this request in the past, indicated that they agree with this need, and requested an RFE be o...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Preserve DBA and dumps when force deac is done

HP has various scenarios where there is a need to force deac a processor, and in those cases, we'd like to preserve the dumps. With streaming dumps, or a processor hang, as well as in the case of a catastrophic dump, it typically makes sense in ou...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Physical Tape Libraries and Drives (SYS5112)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Tape Optimizer on z/OS 1 Planned for future release

DS8K - Individual Accountability (SYS5006)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Tape Optimizer on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhance FIND/REPLACE so that if you are doing find's or replaces with SELECTED text that the selected text remains selected

Enhance FIND/REPLACE so that if you are doing find's or replaces with SELECTED text that the selected text remains selected so that you can do repeated FIND or REPLACE on the selected text without having to reselect the text each time.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

TPFAR DDM limit and version.

This includes two enhancements request for TPFAR. 1) Some programs have too many columns to insert/update to allow a run time bind. The maximum DDM commands for TPFAR is 100. A program doing an INSERT/UPDATE for up to 94 columns, with static bindi...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under 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

Multi-Page tables in OMEGAMON for MFN V5.11 in TEP Enterprise_Networks views TEP have usability and performance issues.

With OMEGAMON for MFN V5.11 the new Enterprise_Networks navigator view has a few mulit-page tables that can be mostly blank because of were the filtering is done.This creates usability and performance issues.All Filters should be done in a custom ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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