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From z/Journal October FLASH:

DINO Software Announces Day-One Support for Latest IBM z/OS Release

DINO Software has announced general availability of version 5 release 2 of T-REX, its catalog management product that supports the new IBM z/OS 1.10 operating system, including new VTOC DSCBs and EAV. "We are very proud that the release was ready prior to IBM releasing 1.10," Dave Roeser, manager of product development for DINO Software, told 5 Minute Briefing. "Many of our customers will be migrating to z/OS 1.10. I suspect it will really pick up during the first and second quarters of next year," said Roeser. However, he noted, DINO also has a few customers that are going to 1.10 this fall "so it was very critical for us to be ready when IBM announced it was ready to go." With T-REX V5.2, the SCRUB and REPRO commands have been enhanced to provide "Dynamic Restart Key" capabilities, so that if users choose to "stop" SCRUB or REPRO during execution, Dynamic Restart allows processing to be dynamically restarted with the next logical entry for the appropriate BCS.

In the area of audit support, T-REX AUDIT command now provides additional BCDS to BCS cleanup support. HBDELETE control cards will be generated for nonSMS managed entries in the BCDS without corresponding BCS entries. Additionally, the TAPEAUDIT command has been enhanced to check for "out-of-sync"/"rolled-out" status with TMC retention; the TAPEAUDIT command now has the ability to look for GDG bases that have gone "inactive" due to application drift, and the TAPEAUDIT command also provides the ability to audit tape data sets for GDG naming but using cycle control for retention. Support has been added for RMM 1.10, LCS 1.10, and ZARA 1.7

With this release, there are REORG/EXPORT/IMPORT enhancements. In particular, said Roeser, the REORG command, which enables users to reorganize a catalog while it is still open and active, has been redesigned to remove any dependencies on IBM's catalog management. "There are certain installations that did not want to change the way IBM-supplied catalog management enqueues were propagated around the installation," explained Roeser. Enqueues are database-locking mechanisms that enable well-regulated sharing of known resources. "T-REX like other competitors, require enqueues be propagated in certain ways and that was causing some hampering in certain installations, so we went in and redesigned our REORG so that any of these dependencies were completely eliminated." The new release includes additional upgrades in reporting, diagnostic support, documentation, as well as other areas. For more product details, go here.