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IMS System Services

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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

Transactions that have been purged will still process messages but need to be started after a recycle in SQ systems.

The company uses IMS with shared queues. Whenever a transaction is purged, a BMP will still process the messages queued to it, but after the system is restarted, the same BMP will not process it. Starting the transaction again will resume the proc...
about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 2 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

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

DBRC should refer to the staging data set of IMS directory

When IMS-managed ACB is enabled and some new DB definitions in the staging data set before the IMPORT command , DBRC does refer to the active data set, not staging data set, and DBRC returns RC=12. INIT.DBDS DBD(DBSX1252) DDN(DDSX1252) NOCATALG - ...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

Increase Maximum areas for a DEDB

IMS FP db's are limited by IBM to a total of 2048 db areas. We would like to have this increased. We would like this increase by 1st QTR 2019. We will assist in testing.
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Delivered

Set IMS Fast Path NBA/OBA Default Values

I would like to have IBM provide an IMS level default value for Fast Path NBA/OBA parameter. A couple of years ago we added some new Fast Path DEDB SDEP databases to IMS to be used by the applications for logging. These databases needed to be upda...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

Batch utility to create DDL statement from existing IMS managed ACB metadata

We need a batch utility to create DDL statements from existing IMS managed ACB metadata. E4D has similar functionality and we need this as a batch utility because with large ACB, E4D may have performance issues.
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

Convert existing PSB/DBD to DDL statements in batch

Batch utility to convert members in PSBLIB and DBDLIB to DDL statements.
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Delivered

Dynamically determine which IMS system needs to do the Update or Refresh PSB command

We need the ability for the IMPORT DEFN(CATALOG) command to dynamically determine which OPTION to use (UPDATEPSB/REFRESHPSB) and not rely on the customer/user to make that determination.
almost 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Delivered

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