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System Management

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Allow ISPF SPOC to use max screen width instead of 80 char

Allow ISPF SPOC to utilize the entire width of a user's screen instead of being limited to 80 characters. Current 3270 emulators can even go as high as 160 chars width. Based on some testing that we did, it seems to be a simple enough change (from...
almost 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Add a LOCATE and FIND facilities to Syntax Checker

Since DFSPBxxx with the last IMS Versions has become a quite big Memeber, not always easy to navigate into, the availability of LOCATE and FIND funtions would help i.e. in finding a specific parameter. - Please change the visibility of this RFE to...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Different handling of U0711-1E in a MPP with JVM.

The environment is IMS V14 running IMS MPP with JVM and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. Every ABEND in one of this MPP with JVM dependent region causes the rebuild of the JVM wit...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Message in CTL region indicating that 64-bit log buffers have successfylly been enabled.

After the 64-bit log buffers (BUFSTOR=64) have been enabled there should be a message written in the CTL region indicating that the buffer has successfully been enabled in a similar way that is done for the FPBP64.It would be beneficial if the val...
about 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Move EPCB and CSAPSB Pool above the 64-bit bar

Mizuho-bank is now designing new account system and experiencing ECSA shortage.The main contributing factors are EPCB and CSAPSB pools, despite the efforts of IMS technical team to shrink each PSB size (cutting off the DBPCBs) and reduce IFP regio...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Refreshable Exit support for additional exits

Provide refreshable exit support for DFSMSCE0 and DFSQSSP0
almost 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

When a /STO SUBSYS and subsequent /STA SUBSYS is issued, IMS has to be restarted in order to make the dep regions pick it up

The customer needs IMS to be able to start subsystems SSM members dinamically when an external subsystem is having issues. Currently, if a sick subsystem is causing problems, issuing a /STO SUBSYS on the sick subsystem and /STA SUBSYS on another S...
about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Syntax Checker should support all members of the IMS PROCLIB

Syntax Checker should support all members of the IMS PROCLIB, and be able to guess the member type based on the member name.
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Add a facility to alow User show how many Transactions have been processed by a SQ Member

Customer reported that in a Shared Queues environment the /DIS Command Outout does not allow him to verify which IMS in the IMSPlex has processed the Transactions.Customer SP's which are implementing new IMS Shared Queues Environments to process s...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

SLDSREAD to retry automatically on secondary dataset

Testing the new feature SLDSREAD on IMS v11 and we have found a situation that we think is not correct. IMS always tries to mount the primary SLDS dataset even though it has an i/o error, it has been deleted or it has been marked in error. Several...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration