DFSMS Advanced Topics: VSAM Record Level Sharing (RLS) Best Practices

In this session, the speaker will cover best practices for clients that use VSAM Recording Level Sharing (RLS). The best practices will include tips to detect, SMSVSAM issues, what documentation to collect, and finally how to resolve issues with the minimal amount of impact to the overall production cycle. The speaker will also cover ways to optimize VSAM RLS usage, and how to correctly size your VSAM RLS cache and buffer sizes to make optimum use of features made available through VSAM RLS.  Finally we will go over why you want to make sure your systems are correctly tuned and what benefits are obtained when everything is running correctly.