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    Allow VSAM Data Sets To Consider Previously Used Volumes Prior To Extend Failures

    Allow new extents for VSAM data sets to consider previously used volumes before failing the extend with out of volume error.The feature will be very useful to Db2 tablespace and index extend processing which will provide additional Db2 object avai...
    14 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Submitted

    add compression support for VSAM ESDS (extended format)

    Same use case as SAM. We don't have large amount of VSAM ESDS, but what we have we like to have compressed and encrypted. As the name imply, VSAM ESDS is Entry-Sequenced Data Sets. zEDC should be used for compression. We like to compress them befo...
    4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 3 Not under consideration

    Espansion problem on DB2 table allocated on Storage group with available free space

    DB2 for z/OS does not elect to reuse the space that it freed up on the first volume of multivolume vsam dat set.DFSMS will not and cannot know it is available for reuse.Since the data set is a Linear Data Set, it is up to the application to determ...
    almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

    Remove requirement for SZERO=YES

    When VSAM was first introduced, the only way, without requiring changes to every ATTACH in the address space, to share user storage was to use subpool zero. Sharing subpool zero has unintended consequences for a task that (ABENDed) ended without f...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Future consideration

    Ansible automation for OpenShift deployment on Linuxone with z/VM hypervisor

    Ansible Playbooks to automate a User-Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) deployment of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) with z/VM hypervisor. This process, when done manually, is extremely tedious, time-consuming, and requires high levels...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    Move CICS LSR Pools above the bar

    This is in followup with RFE 114714 We would like to see the LSR pools moved above the bar for CICS. This will allow us to allocate more number of buffers which will reduce physical I/O
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 1 Future consideration

    z/OSMF enable automatic REST API TSO logoff when logging out of z/OSMF

    Currently, when using software update (and perhaps other OSMF functionality?) a TSO session is started for the REST API and it does not end when a user logs out of z/OSMF. It requires some amount of time without any activity before the session wil...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    s390x based oc-mirror plugin for linuxONE OpenShift clusters to mirror Operator HUB file based catalog in Air gapped environment.

    oc-mirror plugin can fine-tune the configuration to only include the OpenShift Container Platform releases and Operators that cluster needs which reduces the amount of data needed to download and transfer. Currently s390x based oc-mirror plugin is...
    over 2 years ago in Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE 1 Not under consideration

    Improved support for SMB-related parms via DYNALLOC

    We support customers who depend on the use of SMB and, specifically, SMBDFR=N. They have asked us to support continuous availability through the ability to detach & reattach certain VSAM files while the underlying platform (a started task) rem...
    over 7 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Future consideration

    Component name in IFGRPL

    When the Vsam has no more volumes, there's a need to make an extent by idcams.To automate de idcams jcl, there's a requirement to know the component name of vsam to extent, but there's no information of that in ifgrpl. we need this information in ...
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM 2 Not under consideration

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