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Search results: IMS Database Manager

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Add support for dynamic arrays in the Catalog and IMS Explorer-created Database Views

REQUIREMENT: When performing some preliminary testing for accessing IMS data through the Catalog, we ran into an error for one of our segments that stated dynamic arrays were not supported when creating the PCB object. This is a potential showstop...
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

Add heartbeat messages to show status of IMS database backout processing

Add "heartbeat" messages to show status of IMS database backout processing, especially during IMS emergency restart.
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

modify the MSDB-to-DEDB Conversion utility (DBFUCDB0)

hi would like to know if you can modify the utility to correctly report the record count for databases with more than 32K database records because larger record counts cause it to wrap and/or be interpreted as a negative binary number. it would be...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Is a defect

Please remove the latch requirement for DMB obtained during DB compression

We had some IMS BMP performance related issues that showed the more jobs we ran on an LPAR against the same database/partition the slower the jobs would run. Upon review of the IMS Monitor reports and IMS latching log records we noticed a rather s...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

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