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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 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS VSAM/RLS 1 Planned for future release

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 ...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / RACF 3 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / DFSMS Disk Storage SW Support 1 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / HCD 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in z/OS / HCD 2 Needs more information

zOS Health Check - Root and Altroot in synch?

Add a new Health Check or extend an existing one that compares the root and altroot filesystem if they are in synch.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / USS 0 Under review

SDSF - Output Class 'OUTCLASS' Panel

There are for most of the definitions like Jobclass (JC), SPOOL definition (MAS,SO,SP), System info (PROC,INIT) but no quick overview for the Output Class "OUTCLASS" definition. This request is to provide another JES related panel for OUTCLASS to ...
6 days ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Future consideration

Command to display how much full is SYS1.LOGREC dataset (in given moment)

Dear IBM Team, there is now way how to find out how much occupied is SYS1.LOGREC dataset (in DSLIST 3.4 it always shows 100 %, so this is not relevant). There is just warning message IFB080E once it is 90 % full and then message IFB081I once it is...
3 months ago in z/OS / BCP_Service Aids 0 Future consideration

SDSF - Add RACF Template RACF Information

Add to the SDSF panel 'RACF' two new columns that shows the installed and available RACF template version.
about 2 months ago in z/OS / SDSF 0 Under review