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IMS Archive Enhancements

- Add a new option to the archive function for retention days to specify keeping records. The records are not archived (not deleted and not written to a file) that are generated within the retention days. - Add a new function DUMP. It is just writ...
about 1 month ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Add ability to see PSBs that point to a DBD from DBD Detail panel, and sort better on that column.

On the DBD Detail Panel there is a column 'Pointed by PSB (#)'. It would be nice to have a line command to see that list of PSBs from this panel. Also, each DBD often has multiple lines (ACTIVE/ACT-DIR) with only one line having a 'Pointed by PSB(...
3 months ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

IMS JDBC driver-equivalent SQL support for IMS Administration Tool ISPUFI feature

Currently the IMS Administration Tool ISPUFI feature is based on COBOL and the IMS native SQL support of IMS. This leads into many restrictions of the SQL functionality compared to what the IMS JDBC driver provides. Please enhance the IMS Administ...
over 6 years ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

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