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IMS Database Manager

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Better Replication Solution needed to move incremental changes to IDAA and CP4D

Asked this of Mario Perotti on a recent Webex and he suggested submitting an Idea, so here we are. Customers that have data in an IMS database are using it within IMS for transactional purposes, but need to move it elsewhere for Analytics. We curr...
6 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Move Fastpath Lookaside Buffers out of ECSA

Currently VSO lookaside buffers live in ECSA. For users with large amounts of highly used VSO's this means 100's MB's of ECSA can be assigned to the CTL region for these buffers. In a modern IMS system it would make sense for these buffers to me m...
9 months ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Propose an LTS Release for IMS

I would like to have the possibility to chose a long time support release for IMS (like MQ product). Today, one version is a 2 years version. It is often too short for a production environment. We spend too much time to migrate the software to a n...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

DEDB's - Move SDEPs to a secondary ADS

We face an issue where a single DEDB area can use vast amounts of SDEPs under a single root. This has led us to be max size 4gb on the ADS with no room for future growth. Our only option currently is to look to move off of IMS DEDB's and SDEPs. Th...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Allow FPBP64STAT parameter to be updated via PROCLIB

Currently FPBP64STAT is only updateable via type-2 command meaning it is lost through a coldstart. We would like for this parameter to have an equivalent proclib parameter which can be set, to maintain the setting through cold start.
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Add additional statistics to the DLRACCT stats area

Adding additional metrics to the DLRACCT data area will provide better insight into where units of work are spending time and help identify bottlenecks. Currently, field DLRESAF provides a total number of ESAF Normal calls. Would like to see this ...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

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over 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Not under consideration

IMS Asynchronous Lock Duplexing

With DB2 12, we can activate the Asynchronous Lock Duplexing. We need the same functionality for IMS.
over 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

DFS3CATQ API Open call with the DEFINITION=CONCAT

We at BMC are utilizing the DFS3CATQ API Open call with the DEFINITION=BOTH parameter that allows for requesting IMS control blocks from either STAGING or ACTIVE IMS Directories. We have multiple scenarios in our products code base where it is nec...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Fetching Vendor data from Directory

Vendor data that gets stored in Directory needs to be read by vendor batch utilities (PFX utilities). We need mechanism in DFS3CATQ i.e. if requested it should return the vendor data may be ignore the other meta data both from active as well stagi...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

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