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As a database administrator, I want to be able to tell from the console message what application program caused a dump within the TPFDF middleware, so that I don’t need to post process the dump to get this information.

TPFDF itself checks for errors and can detect many error conditions. In these cases, TPFDF and correctly tags the dump message with the calling application program in a centralized error handling routine. However, if the dump happens in the TPFDF ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

zTPFDF should provide an "aging" report similar to VERIFY chain counts, to show the time interval since the prime was last updated.

As a database administrator, I want to know how long it has been since a given sub-file was last updated so that stale, obsolete and no longer needed data can be more easily identified. The idea is to Enhance CRUISE to provide “Aging” statistics i...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

Exclude option for files, SQL tables in the programs call graph view.

In the AD version v6.0.1 both forward and backward call graph shows programs, files, SQL tables in the analyze client graphical view. From users perspective the expected behavior is to show only the programs alone. Of course this could have been a...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 5 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...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Delivered

In Database Recovery Facilitate provide a method to show the percentage of the recovery process

When running recoveries, especially large scale recoveries such as disaster recovery, DBAs are asked to provide an estimate of when the recovery will be completed. It would be helpful to have some sort of means to see what percentage of the entire...
about 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 2 Delivered

RANGE functionality for CRUISE

The CRUISE package currently provides controls to govern the number of concurrent ECBs the utility is allowed to run with. During this year's Herndon stress test we observed that despite increasing the number of concurrent ECBs for the utility, ru...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Display PCB Database List Summary in IMS Abend Dumps

Currently the PCB Database List is displayed as continuous text that has to be scrolled through to see the status code for each DBD. The PCB Database List should be displayed showing each DBD as shown below in Use Case. In the example, the current...
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

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