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Maintain Global Information for IMS Programs

Please add support to maintain IMS program global status in RM, similar to the current support for transactions, databases and database areas, GSTSTRAN, GSTSDB and GSTSAREA. Support for programs with GSTSPGM would allow stopping and starting progr...
4 months ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Future consideration

Support dynamic STEPLIB for CSLULXSB (Rexx/SPOC) interface

Would promote greater flexibility by avoiding the need to allocate the IMS RESLIB before ISPF initialization.
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

CSL Environment startup parameters values should be displayed at IMS and CSL environment startup time.

The contents of IMS Proclib Member DFSDCxxx , CSL Proclib Member DFSCGxxx , SCI Proclib Member CSLSIxxx , OM Proclib Member CSLOIxxx and RM Proclib Member CSLRIxxx should be displayed at IMS and CSL environment Tasks startup time in the same way t...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 6 Not under consideration

Change panel CSLUPAA (SPOC) to support wider screen sizes.

This deficiency locks the user into a *x80 form factor even when using a wider screen sizes. This causes the user to waste time scrolling left and right in a very narrow window. I can supply an alternative version of the CSLUPAA panel that support...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

ICH408I in the SPOC job instead of in the IMSOM started task

Security exceptions for SPOC should appear as close to the action that caused the exception as possible. For example, a batch job with PGM=CSLUSPOC should include the ICH408I message in the batch job.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

IMS DRD Security Interface

Currently we have an IMS Installation that has multiple distinct clients. We would like to use DRD to define IMS resources (Transactions, DB etc.), however we require a security interface such that each client can only create or modify resources t...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 2 Not under consideration

Only one STC for RS and RM in DRD environment

RM is the IMS Resource Manager and it is required when DRD is implemented with RS. So the resource manager needs another STC as a slave to maintain the files where are stacked the resources.This new STC have to be added to start-up, stop and surve...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 2 Not under consideration

Limit the use of the ALL parameter for certain IMS type 2 commands.

Limit the use of the ALL parameter for certain IMS type 2 commands.
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 4 Not under consideration

Improve OM audit logstream examples

Improve the documentation and IVP sample definition of the OM audit logstream: Include the retention period and auto-delete values, as well as a discussion about cleanup and link to the sample that shows printing out the data for archiving. Also s...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 2 Not under consideration

DRD command to look at last user to access PGM/TRAN

Be able to query the last or one of the more recent users to have accessed a program, transaction, or database.
almost 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration