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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on May 28, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets.

But,

(1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets

(2) in case if customer installs a full suite of ZMS OMEGAMON products (e.g. z/OS, CICS, DB2, MQ, Storage, Network, JVM ... etc), and increase the FILE_COUNT and STORE_SIZE, then the total DASD size would be significant, and would need to spread over multiple 3390-9 DASD. 

The only option is to reduce the PDSV2 dataset size, or change the target DASD to be model-27 or model-54.

But this is workaround, not flexible.

Idea priority Medium

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