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IMS Database Manager

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Allow ODBM synchronous data capture using third party exits

Today we are using the Precisely SQD product for IMS data capture replication. It captures changes and writes them to its own log stream (Synchronously, no IMS log records), then processes them after that (Asynchronously). They get control at the ...
8 months ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

Support DBFUMIN0 with DBRC=N under the IMS Managed ACB environment

We typically use DBFUMIN0 utility with DBRC=N to format ADS because we could save time to spend DBFUMRI0 utility. We do not format ADS during online transaction processing by using DBFUMRI0, but we use DBFUMIN0 with DBRC=N to format ADS, then use ...
about 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Future consideration

An enhancement to the IMS Universal Drivers and Open Database Manager to allow for batching IMS segment data for the keyed segment and all of its dependent/child segments

Currently the JDBC driver allows for batching off a specific SSA list. Our application requires a way to fetch segments of varying parentage that do not conform to a single SSA. For example, We have a three level hierarchy of SEGMENT1, SEGMENT2, A...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

Enhance IMS to be able to do decimal compares on DL/I calls

Current IMS only performs binary compares when a DL/I call contains a qualified SSA. This is a problem for packed and zoned decimal values and comparisons with >, >=, < and <=. Because IMS only performs binary comparisons a DL/I call c...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Future consideration

Heartbeat message for long running IMPORTs under managed ACBs

In an IMS managed ACB environment the IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG) command is being used to activated previously generated directory control blocks for PSBs and DBDs. If you are importing a larger number of control blocks, the import processing can...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Altering IMS database mapping cases and fields within it using DDL

Based on the current IMS ALTER TABLE syntax documentation, there is currently no way to add a single mapping case or to drop a single mapping case at the moment. You can only drop the complete mapping definition and add it again including the addi...
over 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

DFS3LU00 should allow the user to choose to generate control blocks and statements from the Catalog Staging area

When using DFS3LU00 to generate DBD or PSB source statements or control blocks, only DBDs or PSBs in the active portion of the IMS catalog are considered. There is no way to specify generation from the staging portion of the IMS catalog.
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Change Request for DFSBRLSC Macro

We would like to request that the DFSBRLSC macro add a new option ACTIVE/STAGING to the DFSBRLSC macro.The IMS Reorg utility needs to issue a DBRC RECON command to the staging data set using the DFSBRLSC macro.Therefore, we would like you to add a...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Future consideration

Logging of DLI Batch Jobs With DBRC Information

Our organization uses IMS DB as the core of various systems. We do regular backups and change accumulation processes. We've had 2 recent instances where a particular database got corrupted or damaged and needed to restore this database. We went th...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Future consideration

Invalidate GUR cache / update SQL metadata

IMS caches DBD and PSB metadata for IMS applications and JDBC based tools using SQL access to IMS databases in the so called GUR cache. There are situations in which an invalidation of this cache would be helpful like situations in which DBD metad...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

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