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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...
4 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 0 Submitted

Increase Record Length of WRITETOFILE Output

When we run an Audit batch job, the SYSPRINT records are 121 bytes long, so the entire report is shown. However, when we use the WRITETOFILE parameter, the records that are written to the dataset specified on the OUTFILE DD are only 80 bytes long,...
1 day ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 0 Submitted

Move settings of password phrase rules from ICHPWX11-exit to RACF SETROPTS

Today we use the Exit ICHPWX11 to manage our rules for RACF Password Phrases (e.g. length of Password Phrase, valid Characters). Unfortunately the exit is not supported by IBM. A sample is delivered with SYS1.SAMPLIB, but the most current version ...
18 days ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Submitted

Warning message for new data sets covered by a Generic Profile

Allowing a warning period - IBM Documentation The warning message is issued for existing data sets, not for new data sets. For example, if you try to create a new data set that has the same name as a generic profile that does not give you ALTER ac...
11 days ago in z/OS / RACF 0 Submitted

Adding Functionality into RMF Monitor III and Z Performance Capacity Analytics for MQ

Dear IBM Team We have been provided with the IBM MQ Support Pac to interpret SMF data and the MQCMD utility to use. I can confirm it is very useful in the absence if anything else, if you required to keep channel message information and data trend...
11 days ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Submitted

ISPF Edit Highlighting for HTML in ASCII mode

ISPF highlighting should support highlighting HTML in ASCII mode. With the growth of HTML files in USS that appear in ASCII mode, ISPF support of these files makes sense. HTML coders will benefit, as well as the entire ISPF ecosystem.
4 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

ISPF Edit Highlighting for Natural

ISPF Highlighting should support Natural code. This will improve productivity for Natural coders and will generally benefit the entire ISPF ecosystem.
4 days ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

Convert RACF to UTF-8

It would be beneficial if RACF supported full UTF-8 natively, it would allow greater support for specialized characters in names and descriptions, it would also make communication with other systems much easier.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Submitted

Add a confirmation panel for Free command in ISPF command line.

In ISPF add a confirmation panel for Free command. My customers want this fucntion. Becase they wants to prohibit thier datasets from being compressed unintentional.
about 1 month ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Submitted

DFSMSrmm: EDGAUD ability to select by data set name

EDGAUD Currently the EDGAUD utility used to generate reports using SMF record is limited to using following selections: DATE INTERNALRACKS USERSVOLUMES It would be useful to also include DATASET name. Only other way to get information by data set ...
16 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Submitted

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