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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 ...
10 months ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Future consideration

Support DBFUMIN0 with DBRC=N under the IMS Managed ACB environment

We typically use DBFUMIN0 utility with DBRC=N to format ADS because we could save time to spend DBFUMRI0 utility. We do not format ADS during online transaction processing by using DBFUMRI0, but we use DBFUMIN0 with DBRC=N to format ADS, then...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Future consideration

Use of "Bypass extent checking function " for DEDB Access to improve performance under many parallel I/Os on the same AREA

Our customer's systems are experiencing lock timeout issues and have seen DASD response times increase during certain times of high transaction rates.About over 100 FP areas from each of the three data sharers have been consolidated and updated wi...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 29 Future consideration

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