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Make Temp datasets configurable

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Hi,

We found that while copying load modules from one PDS to another, IBM uses a standard temporary dataset format which is against our shop SMS rules. We found that there isn't a way to override the second and third nodes to confirm with inhouse SMS standards.

I'm proposing that we get an option to configure the temporary datasets used by IDz so that we can get things to work in accordance to the SMS standards set up already.


Thanks

Prasanna V Balasubramanian

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Jason Chung
    Reply
    |     Mar 31, 2025

    Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us.

    The development team has a few comments to clarify before we can make a decision for this idea:

    • The full second qualifier can be customized by a new RSE host env.

    • The third qualifier can be partially customized using a prefix specified by a new RSE host env. The trailing 0000000<n> is still required for the required test to guarantee they are unique to be used (to avoid naming collision).

    To maintain the temp file name uniqueness on the third qualifier, it can be customized either fully with the existing qualifier I000000<n> to be turned into the fourth qualifier, or partially customized as a short prefix with the appendix of <nnnn> equivalently with the existing qualifier of I000000<n>. There will be two temp datasets (for SYSIN and SYSPRINT correspondingly) relevant in this change.


    Is this aligned with your original idea suggestion?

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