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    PDSE support for IMS (Steplib)

    Currently IMS does not fully support PDSEs outside of MODBLKS, PGMLIB, SMPLTS, and SDFSJLIB. However the direction of travel for other Mainframe Components seems to be to move from PDS to PDSE with IMS not falling in line with this. This causes is...
    over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / All components 2 Not under consideration

    IMS Restart Light as an FDBR replacement

    Provide an option to do an IMS Restart Light (comparable to a DB2 restart light) which only closes the Online Log Dataset (OLDS) , does Backout for any inflight PSB, and releases corresponding IRLM locks. IMS Control region should then shutdown im...
    over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 1 Not under consideration

    SPOC Audit trail doesn't write batch job name/id number

    When we submit batch SPOC, the audit trail doesn't write job name and job number to identify the job ran that executed so and so commands.
    over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

    Keep IMS generation process after the requirement for IMS-managed ACBs is in place

    There is a statement of direction that IBM will eliminate the need for system generation in following announcement letter.https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/760/ENUSJP17-0477/index.html&request_locale=ja ...
    over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

    Support dynamic STEPLIB for CSLULXSB (Rexx/SPOC) interface

    Would promote greater flexibility by avoiding the need to allocate the IMS RESLIB before ISPF initialization.
    over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

    QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) - does not show ENQ Count

    The TYPE-2 command QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) does not provide a ENQ count, We would like the ENQ Count added when a QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) is done.
    almost 7 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 4 Not under consideration

    Need DFS3PU00 to create datasets on selected volser

    When our customers setup Managed ACB for the first time in their environment, we don't want to let them manually estimate the size of Catalog Database, Secondary Index, Directory, BSDS, Staging, therefore our recommendation is to create these data...
    about 4 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    Move EPCB and CSAPSB Pool above the 64-bit bar

    Mizuho-bank is now designing new account system and experiencing ECSA shortage.The main contributing factors are EPCB and CSAPSB pools, despite the efforts of IMS technical team to shrink each PSB size (cutting off the DBPCBs) and reduce IFP regio...
    about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

    added granularity to security around commands

    TYPE-1 commands allowing granting a user start, stop, lock, and unlock authority separate from the authority to change other metadata, such as changing a TRAN from parallel to serial or setting EDITUC. TYPE-2 commands should support this, too, but...
    over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

    control authority to issue commands with wildcards

    Allow controlling who has authority on issuing commands with wildcards
    over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

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