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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS VSAM/RLS
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 24, 2015

RELATED IDEAS

RFE for the limit for number of TCB'SMSVSAM is allowed to generate on z/OS 2.1

System: z/OS 2.1 SMSVSAM.
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Actor:
User needing new feature which prevent from a burst of UNQUIESCE/OPEN of RLS files that brought down smsvsam.
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Description:
In pmr 12534,000,738, customer encountered Abend 092A storage shortage VSAM hung which due to customer's system with 36 UNQUIESCE/OPEN of RLS files across 600 connected CICS regions that brought about the SMSVSAM issue. Then customer have to restart of SMSVSAM from this ABEND.
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Please consider to do a design change to prevent this situation in
the future(Per RLS colleague mentions that one proposed fix is to limit the TCB's SMSVSAM is allowed to generate).

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 25, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #68470 in product z/OS.

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