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    Better way of managing OPENs and CLOSEs of RLS files across Sysplex

    Currently SMSVSAM design treats operations of Open and Close of VSAM RLS files across the sysplex as a single thread process. In big environments this can be time consuming and hurt performance during heavy workload scenarios. It would be importan...
    26 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Planned for future release

    Add sudo command into the base install USS security

    Integrating sudo like Linux has would improve security by being able to use superuser privileges on a case-by-case basis rather than having all of your commands be superuser authorized. We'd also be able to set restrictions and timeouts in the sud...
    11 months ago in z/OS / Ported Tools 8 Planned for future release

    Modernization of IBM zOS USS Environment

    Looking to modernizing the IBM zOS USS environment to enhance its compatibility with contemporary POSIX standards and utilities. The current system, while robust, lacks certain modern features that are essential for efficient and streamlined opera...
    10 months ago in z/OS / USS 1 Planned for future release

    Describe the catalog mapping information for capacity estimation

    When we migrated the sequential data sets to SMS environment, the user catalog ran out of space, and many batch jobs were ABEND. This was due to an increase in the size of catalog entries due to the use of a maximum of 59 for the Volume Count of ...
    over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS Catalog/IDCAMS/AMS 2 Planned for future release

    To be complete, the IPCS SUMMARY COMMAND dispatchablity information needs to go beyond TCBFLGS4 and also include WEB dispatchablity information plus more

    From IPCS, the SUMMARY command is widely used to determine the state of a TCB in a given address space. That includes the TCBFLGS4 non-dispatiblity flags. For example, if a TCB was in an RB wait via the Wait service, IPCS would state that 'Top RB ...
    almost 2 years ago in z/OS / BCP_Supervisor 1 Planned for future release

    DFSMS and improved volume selection in a Storagegroup.

    Any installation changes volume size over the years. From M3 to M54 and now many of us use EAVs as well.So the storagegroups is typically a mix volumes with different sizes; from a few GBs to many GBs. The key criteria for SMS volume selection und...
    almost 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 1 Planned for future release

    Change CDA (Cloud Data Access) to allow MD5 check-summing as per AWS S3 standards for locked objects.

    Trying to write to locked objects is being refused to to the lack of MD5 checksumming.
    4 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS Cloud Data Access 0 Planned for future release

    Request for IEBCOPY to use Storage Above the Line(31 addressing mode)

    For PDS datasets one needs to compress them on a regular basis to regain unused space. One method is to use DFSMSdss compress which will invoke IEBCOPY to do the compress. IEBCOPY issues a conditional getmain for control blocks and tables in stora...
    about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS Utilities 1 Planned for future release

    Support in-place editing for sed

    The Linux version of sed has a "-i / --in-place" option that allows a sed script to modify a file in-place. The z/OS versions of sed found at /bin/sed do not support this option. Without this option, users resort to a shell redirect and rename usi...
    10 months ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 0 Planned for future release

    Drop the requirements for VSAM RLS/Sysplex Structure

    To make possible to use the new EzNoSQL database without a sysplex.
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS EzNoSQL 3 Planned for future release

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