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IMS System Services

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Remove RSR feature without stop IMS

Customer migrated from RSR solution to XRC solution for disaster recovery site. But, if we need to remove XRC function in active site, the 'DELETE.GSG' command need to offline all IMS shared the RECON dataset. Customer SYSPLEX env. is rolling main...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Delivered

Expand REXXIMS MAPDEF Packed Decimal function

Expand the Packed Decimal length that MAPDEF can handle from 6 to 10 bytes.
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Delivered

IMS Repository support for automatic export

Automatic export to a repository is not supported. We are requesting that IMS Repository provides automatic export capability currently available with DRD. We are dependent on the automatic export function at system checkpoint to trigger export fo...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 4 Delivered

enhanced IMS default DFSSPMxx for HIOP

Performance analysis of IMS pool usage by STRG trace and dump of controlregion reveals that requested HIOP buffersizes X'10000' and x'8148' for QCF are larger than largest buffersize in DFSSPMxx default for HIOP: 32768 decimal (see IMS system defi...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Delivered

QUERY DB command enhancement to show associated VSAM subpool

There is no possibility in IMS to find out which VSAM databases are assigned to a specific VSAM subpool. We need an enhancement of the QUERY DB command, e.g. QUERY DB NAME(x) SHOW(VSAMPOOL), to find out to which VSAM subpool a database is assigned...
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Delivered

Prevent IMS abend U0904 during MFS online change

During the /MODIFY COMMIT of a FMTLIB type online change, if IMS detects an invalid entry in the directory of the new FORMAT library it will abend with U0904. The invalid directory could be caused by mistakenly linking a load module into the libra...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 7 Delivered

Allow a Global Transaction to be spread across multiple IMS Connect and IMS Control region on different LPAR.

Currently a distributed two-phase commit global transaction that involves IMS Connect has the restriction that IMS Connect and IMS have to be on the same LPAR. To clarify this restriction, IMS Connect and the IMS that receives the input msg must b...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 5 Delivered

Cleanup of Disconnected OTMA Clients.

OTMA can have a maximum number of 255 clients after which new connections are rejected. The count includes also NOT DEFINED DISCONNECTED clients. Based on the actual design an IMS COLD start is needed to clean up those clients.This allows clients ...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Delivered

ST4507_WTWTTIME is not accurate because it is added by unit of 1024 microseconds.

ST4507_WTWTTIME is not accurate because it is added by unit of 1024 microseconds.ST4507_WTWTTIME is 4 bytes field as "Accumulated wait time - all Wait for Write (WTWT) " and is copied from LCDSTWTX in DFSFDLB0.LCDSTWTX is also 4 bytes field and DF...
over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Delivered

ACBLIB member OLC for DBD change

We expect the ACBLIB member online change (OLC) succeeds for a single DBD re-generated with the BLDPSB=NO option. Currently OLC requires one or more related PSBs in the staging ACBLIB.
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 30 Delivered

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