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My ideas: DFSMS VSAM/RLS

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Include the dataset name in the IGW859I message text

The Itau bank and IBM has a project to activate the DFSMStvs product to run on the GRBE (Itaú OLTP application) to support the online workload.So, it is very important to us to have an improvement for the message IGW859I, today this message doesn'...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 5 Planned for future release

Allow reuse for VSAM file opened in RLS mode

To be able to use REPRO with the REUSE option against a VSAM file that is opened in RLS mode
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Planned for future release