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IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS

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Missing UP message for CKMJMAIN.

CKMJMAIN does not have a message for System Automation or other product to identify that it has been completely initialized and has successfully connected to all hosts.
about 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add keyword to BACKUP DSN command to select all eligible files in a user catalog

ACM should support the ability to select all VSAM files in a designated User Catalog for backup processing. This can then be combined with an Exclude statement to filter out anomolies. This can be very useful when clients need to capture backups f...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enable external Include and Exclude lists for Backup and Restore

The Include and Exclude criteria for Backup and Restore commands can become very large, sometimes exceeding the maximum length for the parameter. Backup and Restore syntax should be enhanced to select a DD which can be used to point to a flat file...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide RC=0 override when backing up a never opened VSAM cluster

It is possible that a backup request may select an empty VSAM cluster. If the cluster is empty because all previously existing records had been deleted the function completes with an RC=0, but if the cluster is empty because it was defined and nev...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Delivered