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    Correlate the PST processing the request with QUERY ODBM TYPE(THREAD) information in IMS to identify and kill the concerned long running threads and regions.

    This is very useful to identify and kill the inefficient and long running IMS SQLs. At the moment we cannot correlate between the ODBM threads and processing region (DBT) on IMS side. There could be queries that could run longer and do not fill th...
    over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

    Add a control option to skip failed elements to DFS3ID00 (zDDL Utility)

    For users who are using managed ACB, DFS3UACB(/DFS3PU00) handles failed elements like this: It issues "DFS4470E GSAM DBD DRZ0030 NOT IN DBDLIB. BLDL RC = 4. DBD AND REFERENCING PSBS WERE NOT ADDED TO THE CATALOG." and continues processing the rema...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Future consideration

    Optional parameter to avoid STATUS V1 for DEDB REPL

    In IMS V6 APAR, the meaning of MINBYTES in the DBDGEN SEGM macro for DEDB has been changed, so that an unexpected status code "V1" may be returned to REPL CALL for DEDB in IMS V6 and later. In order to avoid this problem, IMS development provides ...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Future consideration

    Allow ODBM synchronous data capture using third party exits

    Today we are using the Precisely SQD product for IMS data capture replication. It captures changes and writes them to its own log stream (Synchronously, no IMS log records), then processes them after that (Asynchronously). They get control at the ...
    over 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

    An enhancement to the IMS Universal Drivers and Open Database Manager to allow for batching IMS segment data for the keyed segment and all of its dependent/child segments

    Currently the JDBC driver allows for batching off a specific SSA list. Our application requires a way to fetch segments of varying parentage that do not conform to a single SSA. For example, We have a three level hierarchy of SEGMENT1, SEGMENT2, A...
    about 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

    Altering IMS database mapping cases and fields within it using DDL

    Based on the current IMS ALTER TABLE syntax documentation, there is currently no way to add a single mapping case or to drop a single mapping case at the moment. You can only drop the complete mapping definition and add it again including the addi...
    almost 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

    Invalidate GUR cache / update SQL metadata

    IMS caches DBD and PSB metadata for IMS applications and JDBC based tools using SQL access to IMS databases in the so called GUR cache. There are situations in which an invalidation of this cache would be helpful like situations in which DBD metad...
    over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

    DFS3CATQ API with CONTCAT option

    This is a curious case with the DFS3CATQ API that exists today when making separate calls to PENDING versus CURRENT IMS directories. I believe this error would not occur if we have the CONCAT option listed below. In this case we have HIDAM DBD tha...
    over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Future consideration

    User Exits During DDL processing

    During processing for a DEDB database member, a user exit will be needed to validate the vendor data in the catalog, and place it into an extension to Directory member. The exit should be able to add related SHISAM database(s) to the list of datab...
    over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

    Vendor Data in the Directory after DDL

    Extended Operands and Vendor Data are in the Directory after using the Catalog Populate Utility to populate the Catalog and Directory from ACBLIB when using IMS Managed ACBs. When building PSBs and DMBs from the Catalog for DDL and the Catalog Dir...
    over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

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