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SAS Program Usage Analysis in IBM Application Discovery

Our mainframe environment includes significant SAS batch processing for critical business functions (financial analytics, actuarial reporting, data transformations). Currently, IBM Application Discovery cannot analyze SAS programs to extract: Prog...

Enable project details on Analyze client without accessing AD Dashboard

Hi Team, I have 2 projects ( Main & Resilience ) in Production server. Both the projects are now available on Analyze client at any time . if i want to enable resilience project to be visible in analyze client when i do Make process on Main pr...

Please add a "COPY membername" command to IMS DDL that would allow us to include copybooks containing commonly used PCBs (SCHEMAs)

This idea would better align with how traditional PSB source is managed in our shop. We rely on the COPY command supported by the Assembly of the PSB in the PSBGEN process. A similar capability for DDL would ease the transition to DDL.
about 2 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

IMS log takes advantage of zHyperLink feature

Hi there, It has been a while since the IMSSS-I-222 raised. (https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IMSSS-I-222) . Could you please reconsider the idea? This will make IMS's performance unmatched, and Db2 /VSAM have taken advantage the ...
4 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

Enable MPPs and BMPs to connect to first *available* member of a Db2 data-sharing group

Right now, when using Db2 group-attach feature of IMS, BMP and MPP regions support only connecting to the very first member listed in Db2 group attach name table. If the first member of the group is unavailable, then no connection at all can be ma...
4 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Under review

Support for DLI or DBB batch regions to get PSB/DBD metadata from IMS staging directory.

Hi, We have quarterly releases where we bring down IMS and run our database change reorgs. While our IMS systems were non managed ACBs, our multi step reorgs run IC and unloads using metadata from DBDLIB.CURR and reload, index builder and post IC ...
5 months ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 0 Under review

Provide capability to easily find a CICS transaction without knowing which project contains it

In large shops with a large application inventory, a developer trying to understand a transaction flow in CICS; would need to be able to easily find that transaction and generate a Transaction call graph. Today, the developer has to know which pro...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time For security reasons, my client explicitly requests the use of Windows authentication, not SQL. However, currently, the only sup...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

IMS Modernization Sandbox in zCX

A containerized sandbox running in z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) that provides a simulated IMS environment for rapid prototyping and API testing will be useful for potential IMS customers.
6 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Submitted

Modify where IMS stores X'99' records

Currently, IMS X'99' Logs that are used for change data capture and replication are stored in SLDS. We would like the x’99’ to be logged into separate log datasets that CDC can listen and replicate.
6 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 0 Under review