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    Perform Batch Reanalysis on FA Originating LPAR in SYSPLEX

    This idea would benefit all users who run Fault Analyzer in a sysplex environment, use Fault History Views that cover history files from different LPARs in said sysplex, and have LPAR specific dependencies where running the batch reanalysis on an ...
    26 days ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0

    ODBM must be downward compatible between code and release levels

    Our customers use ODBM which is a common service layer component servicing multiple IMS target systems. Currently if one of the target IMS systems is migrated to a new release and ODBM is not at that point migrated we lose access to the IMS system...
    about 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

    Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".

    Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".We do have a zos usermod in one of client system which changes the LE delimiter separator character from "/" to "\" and...
    8 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    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

    Make IBM Fault analyzer to work with BLKOFF option as well

    In our organization we have used BLKOFF as default option while compiling programs and now to introduce Fault analyzer its not an easy transition as by default we are not able to use the existing compile listing as side files. We have to re-compil...
    11 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Missing Data Capture Exit Support for IMS Open Database Access

    Updates to IMS databases via Open database access do not trigger the database capture exit routines.
    over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under 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

    FA Eclipse: Show variable content in Cobol Source

    I want to see the contents of working-storage/linkage variables in the opened Cobol source (e.g. with mouseover / hover-over) when using the Eclipse plugin for Fault Analyzer and open the programs source code
    over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Increase FIELD SPECIFICATION LIMIT to handle expanded DBDs from IMS Explorer. 1000 fields is not enough.

    Please increase FIELD SPECIFICATION LIMIT to handle expanded DBDs from IMS Explorer. 1000 fields is not enough. How about 9999? Our customers are VERY interested in IMS 13 & its .NET benefits. We need to be able to add this DBD & a number ...
    over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 3 Is a defect

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