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    Modification to the IMS X'04C' log record

    In order to monitor users who are performing specific IMS commands, we are requesting that the IMS DFSLOG4C macro (x'04C log record) be modified to include the USERID of the requester. The IMS commands we are interested in are STOPs/STARTs (includ...
    about 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    Change panel CSLUPAA (SPOC) to support wider screen sizes.

    This deficiency locks the user into a *x80 form factor even when using a wider screen sizes. This causes the user to waste time scrolling left and right in a very narrow window. I can supply an alternative version of the CSLUPAA panel that support...
    almost 3 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

    IMS V15 WADS support zHyperLink

    IMS v15 WADS logging should use zHyperlink (ZHL) protocol supported by the DFSMS Media Manager I/O driver and ZHL for both reads and writes to boost performance. Background The IMS system software has exploited/relied upon the DFSMS Media Manager ...
    almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

    Request for new IMS ODBM Query Timeout to stop long-running ODBM Queries from further processing

    With our increased usage of IMS ODBM, we have the need for an additional IMS ODBM Query Timeout to stop long-running ODBM Queries from further processing. We would like to be able to specify the Query timeout in both Wall clock time and CPU time.
    almost 9 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a command to create a DB Alloc Record for a database in DBRC Recon

    Provide a command to create an ALLOC record for a database in DBRC Recon dataset. Today an ALLOC record is only created when a DLI update call is issued against the database.
    over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

    Syntax Checker should support all members of the IMS PROCLIB

    Syntax Checker should support all members of the IMS PROCLIB, and be able to guess the member type based on the member name.
    almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    Add a facility to alow User show how many Transactions have been processed by a SQ Member

    Customer reported that in a Shared Queues environment the /DIS Command Outout does not allow him to verify which IMS in the IMSPlex has processed the Transactions.Customer SP's which are implementing new IMS Shared Queues Environments to proc...
    about 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    Treat CPUTIME and COUNT in PROCLIM independent of each other in determining U240 Tran abend

    Currently, a transaction can have a max time equal to the product of CPU-time-per-transaction and count as specified in the PROCLIM parm. This means that if the count needs to be adjusted for tuning purposes, it will have an impact to how long a l...
    about 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

    SLDSREAD to retry automatically on secondary dataset

    Testing the new feature SLDSREAD on IMS v11 and we have found a situation that we think is not correct. IMS always tries to mount the primary SLDS dataset even though it has an i/o error, it has been deleted or it has been marked in error. Several...
    over 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

    Message metadata repository for IMS/TM

    Actually there is neither a way to retrieve message metadata for typical IMS transactions in IMS TM Resource Adapter or IMS Enterprise Suite Connect API from an IMS controlled nor metadata source nor a way to retrieve such metadata from IMS Java a...
    over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

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