... AFAIK using parameters like FORFMID or EXCLUDE etc. will not help, because I think they are recognized after the package is transfered on the client side, what is too late here.
Correct. FORTGTZONES however can be used to limit the scope of the order, but this is only helpful if you have several different target zones managed from your global zone. For your z/OS global zone, you may only have one target zone, therefore, FORTGTZONES may not help.
So again my question is, is it possible to identify the very large PTFs somewhere to order them seperately?
Unfortunately no, it is not possible for you to identify the culprits. I dare say even for IBM it would not be a simple task to identify the very large PTFs in your order. Certainly its not something Level 2 can manage, and they would need to find the right people at the production center to manually gather that information.
In any case I agree with others that you should try to receive Java PTFs separately, maybe also WebSphere/MQ if you have that, then try RECOMMENDED again.
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