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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...
about 8 hours ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 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.
about 15 hours 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.
about 15 hours ago in z/OS / ISPF 1 Submitted

IODF default value of FEATURE and PARAMETER in the manual and the F1 help panel

Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
2 days ago in z/OS / HCD 0 Submitted

Enable FEATURE SHARED=YES in the HCD PROFILE

Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
2 days ago in z/OS / HCD 0 Submitted

IODF report in CSV format

Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
2 days ago in z/OS / HCD 0 Submitted

DASD SHARED default YES in HCD dialog

Our customer encountered data integrity problem for the user catalogs and the DASD datasets in the data warehouse system because a lot of USBs were SHARED=NO. Then it could not update the databases for a few weeks. So, our customer strongly reques...
2 days ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Submitted

sdsf parmlib option give member name

We have the sdsf.parm command today. which lists the datasets in parmlib concatenation.It would be good to be able to issue sdsf.parm IGDSMS00 and it displays __ user.parmlib(IGDSMS00) __ sys1,parmlib(IGDSMS00) so I can then browse/edit it directl...
2 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Functionality already exists

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...
8 days ago in z/OS / RMF 0 Submitted

Support crypto accelerators in go/crypto / HashiCorp Vault (Enterprise)

Currently HashiCorp Vault is compiled using a statically linked go/crypto library which doesn't use openssl or openCryptoki. This results in no support for libica on IBM Z / LinuxOne machines and thus lower performance than expected. It would be n...
18 days ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / Crypto HW 0 Submitted