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z/OS resilience - GRS

Hello! We faced some crises where the root cause was very similar. An Address Space that held an important component off z/OS. We can share an example when a STC did an ENQUEUE on the RACF Base and did not release it again. To release this ENQUEUE...
8 months ago in z/OS / BCP_GRS 0 Future consideration

GRSTRACE LATCH NOLATCH ENQ NOENQ

Many times users of GRSTRACE want to report ENQ events only so a new parameter LATCH|NOLATCH with NOLATCH ideally being the Default would execute the function much faster. Perhaps for LATCH analysis ENQ|NOENQ with ENQ the ideal default would be eq...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / BCP_GRS 0 Future consideration

Display GRS,RNL command should explicitly show all information for RNAME

We experienced an issue caused by the incorrect specification of RNL values for catalogs being shared outside of the plex. We were aware of the need to pad the value to 20 or 44 depending on the catalog name but the name was miscounted. In diagnos...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_GRS 0 Future consideration