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Non-Stop TRAN and PSB

Customer requests Non-Stop TRAN and PSB to avoid DFS065 and U0456. IMS stops transaction when transaction abend occurs. Following transactions are not processed and DFS065 message is sent back to the input terminal until /STA TRAN command is issue...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Delivered

ADDI-Support for current version of COBOL

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the COBOL scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.

AD Authentication & Authorization

Today the Analyze client does not authenticate to the AD Server and Microcsoft SQL Server. At our site, it is required that there is at least authentication from the clients. If possible, we even would go one step further such that user atuthentec...

changed default for APPCMAX in DFSDCxxx

The default APPCMAX=(5000,1000000) in DFSDCxxx is too high. The value 64_bit_max should be much smaller, may be 0.With the current default IMS installations can end up with an IMS SBND (sick but not dead) situation. IMS storage is protected wherea...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Delivered

Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls

Need AD to be able to parse and resolve multi level dynamic Assembler Macro calls

Add Favorites or add the ability to reorganize in the graphs/reports of AD in IDz

While working in AD through IDz, it would be nice to have favorites for a user's top repetitive reports/graphs or the ability to reposition the list of reports/graphs. If a user constantly uses the same reports/graphs, this would be faster for the...

AD usage

Application Discovery should have a capability to track the usage of the AD product. It should be possible to:* measure number of connects to the AD services (to be able to measure # users)- what functions used in AD (graphs,reports,usage)- # inte...

Don't stop PGM on abend

A lot of our jobs are running IMSBATCH only for GSAM feature (only DB2 access)We are using GSAM for repositionning/restart capabilityAll these jobs are running with the same BMP which contains 10 input files (in01 to in10) and 20 output files (OUT...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Delivered

IMS 15 Continous Delivery optional function

Assumption: I get a new optional function. I can turn this function on and off by command. I can turn this function on by parameter in a proclib member. Now I'm in production and want to prevent anyone from switching off this feature via command. ...
about 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Delivered

Automate the steps to create, configure, import, and build an AD project (through a batch process)

An automated system and the configuration of an AD project as well as the import of resources and a final build is currently only partially possible.At the moment, the creation of an AD project with certain configurations (such as ProjectName, Pat...