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ESAF-Connection-Pooling in DSNMIN20 should be configurable

The current implementation of DSNMIN20 includes a fixed table with 50 table spaces for pooling ESAF connections. This fixed size is very rigid and inflexible.It would be much more flexible if the upper limit for the connections were configurable. ...
3 months ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 0 Under review

IMS - DB2 bind under PWFI TRAN

When Appl make Db2 BIND used by PWFI regions IMs have to bring down all IMS regions. Please allow to pause to BIND to PWFI regions without bring down IMS regions
7 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Under review

Adding the classification of APAR(PE/HIPER) in IBM Communications (Informational / Software) received from IBM My Notifications Portal

When we receive IBM notifications mails (when subscribed to IBM My Notifications) the APARs titles don't contain the classifications of the APAR (HIPER/PE). In order to make it easier for us to identify the urgent/important APARs quickly and on ti...
10 months ago in IMS System Services 1 Under review

Dynamically allocate OLDS and WADS via DFSDF member instead of DFSMDA

Having the OLDS and WADS dataset name template in DFSDF will make the logging configuration easier to manage compared to doing it via DFSMDA. This will also make the system more robust specially in an IMSPLEX configuration where each IMS member is...
5 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Under review

Bypass combined DBRC UNAUTH request for multiple AREAs

/DBR DB and /DBR AREA commands can issue the DBRC UNAUTH request for a list of AREAs, the maximum number of AREAs in one list being 160. When the UNAUTH request is isseued for a list of AREAs, the RECON can be reserved for a long period of time. T...
almost 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 0 Under review

IMS Log Recovery Utility (DFSULTR0) - Enhancement to add functionality to be able to close a Secondary OLDS that is OPEN when the Primary OLDS is already in CLOSED status.

IMS Log Recovery Utility was unable to be used to close a secondary OLDS dataset, preventing IMS from starting. This forced an /ERE COLDSYS on a client system. IMS was unable to start from apparent insufficiency in IMS Log Recovery Utility being u...
8 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Under review

Setting in IMS Service Provider to translate user IDs to upper case before sending them to IMS

When a z/OS Connect user generates a Base64 auth token with a RACF user ID containing lower case letters, the authentication and authorization checks in z/OS Connect will be successful, but those in IMS Connect or IMS may fail since the IMS Servic...
over 2 years ago in IMS System Services 1 Under review