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    IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

    In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
    over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

    Limit IRLM lock timeout function only to IFP regions

    In Japan, most of the bank customers use application framework called SAIL which is a GBS Japan's asset, running in their production core banking systems. It runs as MPP for SAIL control regions and IFP for application regions under control of SAI...
    over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Future consideration

    IMS - DB2 bind under PWFI TRAN

    When Appl make Db2 BIND used by PWFI regions IMs have to bring down all IMS regions. Please allow to pause to BIND to PWFI regions without bring down IMS regions
    7 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Under review

    Dynamically allocate OLDS and WADS via DFSDF member instead of DFSMDA

    Having the OLDS and WADS dataset name template in DFSDF will make the logging configuration easier to manage compared to doing it via DFSMDA. This will also make the system more robust specially in an IMSPLEX configuration where each IMS member is...
    5 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Under review

    Create SMF79.15 records when IRLM TIMEOUT value is exceeded but before IMS LOCKTIME is

    If LOCKTIME is set in the DFSVSMxx member of the IMS proclib, the creation of SMF 79.15 only occurs at the same time as a 3310 abend for environments other than IMS batch. If SMF 79.15 records are created when IRLM TIMEOUT has been exceeded regard...
    over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

    Limit the region type for IRLM lock timeout function

    In Japan, most banking customers use an application framework called SAIL, an asset of IBM Japan Consulting, running in their production core banking systems. In the SAIL system, the SAIL control regions run as MPP and the application regions run ...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

    Reducing IMS/Db2 connection pooling thread footprint of an MPP when RLA=Y

    Details When RLA=Y (PH33024) is set there is an opportunity to enhance IMS/Db2 connection pooling (DSNMIN20) . Right now IMS connection pooling modules DFSESAT0 and DFSESCT0 hand over PSTUSID as EEVPUSID to Db2 . Db2 uses this userid as first part...
    over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Future consideration

    IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

    In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage. For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there are APARs ( X...
    almost 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Future consideration

    IMS Log Recovery Utility (DFSULTR0) - Enhancement to add functionality to be able to close a Secondary OLDS that is OPEN when the Primary OLDS is already in CLOSED status.

    IMS Log Recovery Utility was unable to be used to close a secondary OLDS dataset, preventing IMS from starting. This forced an /ERE COLDSYS on a client system. IMS was unable to start from apparent insufficiency in IMS Log Recovery Utility being u...
    8 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Under review

    Assignment of IMS MASTER terminal

    Remove the need for ++USERMOD against DFSICL70 or other individual solutions to circumvent the /ASSIGN problem with IMS MASTER terminal
    about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Future consideration

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