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Please remove the latch requirement for DMB obtained during DB compression

We had some IMS BMP performance related issues that showed the more jobs we ran on an LPAR against the same database/partition the slower the jobs would run. Upon review of the IMS Monitor reports and IMS latching log records we noticed a rather s...
over 12 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

Provide ability to provide subsystem ID for any application and roll remaining IMS/DB2 special ISPF PDB panels into base

In the SA ISPF PDB dialog:Currently, there are only a few (IMS and DB2) applications that provide a field to specify an MVS subsystem ID.    This along with a few remaining definitions require some unique coding a panels.Panel AOFGDYNA f...
over 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

provide IBM Z automation capability to interface with IBM RMF tool especially MONITOR III

it would be great to have an interface through IBM z system automation to RMF tool especially monitor III for the live analysis/custom alert mechanism for z performance especially resources,jobs, enques, transactions,..etc.,
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

REMOVE MAINTENANCE OF POLICY DATABASES AND BUILD,REFRESH PROCESS FOR ACF FILE

make all automation configuration dynamic with not maintaining policy databases/customization separately, instead customize, configure refresh directly from SA Netview agent panel. this would not only help maintaining policy database datasets but ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

HALDB Indicator/flag for PST

Inside DFSPECA customer need an indicator/flag, indicating whether, for example, the PST is BMP or MPP. They also need an indicator for the IMSID.
over 12 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

PITERGO0514-1698 COBOL API Interface for system driven checkpointing and widening it do IMS BMP DL/1

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bernhard.Radefeld@itergo.comSubmitters Company: ITERGO PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PITERGO0514-1698 COBOL API Interface for system driven checkpointing and widening it do IMS BMP DL/1Homework Assigned: NoRequ...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

Dump analysis tool

With some of our most experienced dump readers either having retired already, or soon to retire. I was chatting to the boss about DWIZ since I'm always mentioning it when the team talks about dumps. He asked what it does, and when I told him, he a...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Stopping an Aplication Group

Is it possible to get a new flag with the INGREQ command to stop only the group? So, I can decide, if I want a propagation or not?
over 13 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 7 Future consideration