IBM ZOS V1.12 Manual - page 6
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• DFSMSrmm
TM
is planned to be enhanced for z/OS V1.12. The reason why a
DFSMSrmm retention limit was reached is planned to be added to the ACTIVITY
file. This function is also available now for z/OS V1.10 and z/OS V1.11 with the
PTF for APAR OA30881. New reports created from the ACTIVITY and extract
files are planned to help you see why retention limits were triggered. Also,
OPENRULE ignore processing is planned to be available for duplicate tape volumes
and support is planned to allow you to set a volume hold attribute to prevent
expiration and to search and report on volumes which have the hold attribute. It
is also planned that the DFSMSrmm ISPF dialog search results can be bypassed
when using the CLIST option.
• DFSMS plans to provide a system option to control how the system handles
multivolume tape label anomalies. This means that you can now prevent
applications processing tape volumes out of sequence without coding an
installation exit.
• The Interactive Storage Management Facility (ISMF), used to manage your SMS
configuration, allows you to copy storage group definitions from one control data
set (CDS) to another. In z/OS V1.12, ISMF is extended to allow you to specify
that the volume list for pool-type storage groups be copied at the same time.
This allows you to copy entire storage groups from one configuration to another
without having to add their volumes to the destination CDS afterward.
• The JESXCF component is changed to allow you to log on to multiple systems
within a sysplex using the same TSO/E user ID.
• DFSMSdfp
TM
is planned to allow a zFS data set to be recataloged with an indirect
volume serial or system symbol. This is designed to allow the zFS file systems
used for z/OS system software files (called version root file systems) to be
cataloged using an indirect volume serial or a system symbol the same way as
non-VSAM data sets to make cloning and migration easier.
• In prior releases, partial release operations for VSAM data sets supported
releasing space only on the last volume containing data for each data set. In z/
OS V1.12, partial release is planned to be extended to support releasing unused
volumes in addition to releasing space on the last volume of a multivolume VSAM
data set that contains data.
• The IDCAMS DEFINE RECATALOG command is planned to be enhanced for
multivolume and striped data sets. This new function will be designed to
automatically create catalog entries with correctly ordered volume lists while
eliminating any duplicate volumes that might have been specified. This will make
it easier to recatalog multivolume and striped VSAM data sets.
• IDCAMS is planned to be enhanced to allow you to delete all members of a
partitioned data set in a single operation by specifying a wildcard character (*)
as the member name for a data set when using the DELETE command. This new
support allows you to remove all members of a PDS or PDSE data set in a single
command.
• The Capacity Provisioning Control Center is planned to support displaying
provisioning reports supported by the Capacity Provisioning Manager. This
is intended to simplify the investigation of Capacity Provisioning reports and
operation of the Capacity Provisioning server.
• In z/OS V1.9, support was added to write SMF data to log streams. In z/OS
V1.12, RMF is planned to be enhanced to read SMF records directly from a log
stream. This is intended to allow you to eliminate any intermediate steps you
currently use to unload SMF data from a log stream to a sequential data set for
RMF postprocessing.
• The Capacity Provisioning Manager client is planned to be updated to provide
support for Windows® Vista.
• Library Server is designed to improve performance when building new catalogs
and supporting multiple users on heavily loaded systems. A new Personal
BookCase function in Library Server is planned to allow you to create, use, and
share your own subset of the documents from a Library Server catalog. This
function is designed to allow you to configure a Personal BookCase that includes
the shelves and documents, as well as the infocenters and topics, that you are
interested in so you can have the reference documents you routinely use available
quickly. Also, indexing is planned to capture the author's intended definition of
primary nodes for an InfoCenter's Table of Contents, and planned administrative
improvements include long filename support, programmatically checking for the