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IMS System Services

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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

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.
about 8 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 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

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

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

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

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

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

DDL SQL batch batch passticket support

DDL SQL batch password is passed in clear either in JCL or dataset. Our shop does not allow the user to have the password in clear. DDL SQL batch need to support passticket.
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 7 Delivered

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