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    Better Replication Solution needed to move incremental changes to IDAA and CP4D

    Asked this of Mario Perotti on a recent Webex and he suggested submitting an Idea, so here we are. Customers that have data in an IMS database are using it within IMS for transactional purposes, but need to move it elsewhere for Analytics. We curr...
    about 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

    IMS Asynchronous Lock Duplexing

    With DB2 12, we can activate the Asynchronous Lock Duplexing. We need the same functionality for IMS.
    about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

    DCLGEN for the IMS Catalog

    We need to be able to generate PL/I definitions/includes with the IMS Catalog as the source and the leading system/basis. It should be possible to integrate that type of generation with the software build process.
    over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

    Display again the database filter menu like in v15

    In IDz v15, there were two context menus on database connection items like schema or stored procedure: Filter and Properties In v17, there is only Properties where filters can be set as well. A customer would like to see the Filter menu again.
    7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

    Provide a way for Developer to input a 'hex' key in a search string.

    we have unique client identifiers which are 4 byte character representations of a 8 digit hex value. Eg. key_field_name : X'BE336244' This is the key in a wide number of tables and databases here, so is used quite commonly in queries. Issue When I...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

    Add additional statistics to the DLRACCT stats area

    Adding additional metrics to the DLRACCT data area will provide better insight into where units of work are spending time and help identify bottlenecks. Currently, field DLRESAF provides a total number of ESAF Normal calls. Would like to see this ...
    over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under 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...
    almost 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Future consideration

    Add Host Connection Emulators (HCE) to PushToClient

    Specific configuration settings are required by our RDz 8.5.x and 9.0.1 clients: 1. z/OS Remote System Connections2. Host Connection Emulators (HCEs - one for each Remote System Connection)3. Help Content URLs (enablement/disablement)4. Other Soft...
    about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

    Correlate the PST processing the request with QUERY ODBM TYPE(THREAD) information in IMS to identify and kill the concerned long running threads and regions.

    This is very useful to identify and kill the inefficient and long running IMS SQLs. At the moment we cannot correlate between the ODBM threads and processing region (DBT) on IMS side. There could be queries that could run longer and do not fill th...
    over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

    IDz/CARMA - new package status "Execute Failed"

    Would like to see a new Package status of "Execute Failed" in CARMA. When I select IN-APPROVAL and APPROVED, I see Endevor packages that are in those statuses but also see packages that are in exec failed status. Please include a Package status of...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Future consideration

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