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    DEDB ALTER REPLRAND - no change to randomizer name

    We can replace an active DEDB database randomizer while the DEDB database remains accessible online by using the REPLRAND function of the DEDB alter utility. Current support of this function requires users to change RMNAME parameter on the DBD, DB...
    over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

    FPBP64M does not take effect to current working (scheduling) applications

    We found that FPBP64M potential system outage risk like a real storage shortage, the FPBP64M current design is not able to protect the real storage shortage because current applications can expand the FPBP64 pool unlimitedly beyond the value of FP...
    over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

    Improve IMS performance for DLI calls that hit empty areas.

    Improve IMS performance for DLI calls that hit empty areas. By “empty “ we intend to mean - areas that have no data populated in them since allocation , OR an area that had some data but it was deleted and is now empty. And this should target proc...
    about 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

    DEDB DBFUMIN0 DB utility and ACBLIB

    DBFUMIN0 requires the ACBLIB library. During IMS version migration in an IMSPLEX environnement, the utility fails because it ran in IMS V12 and ACBLIB was still in V11. DBFUMIN0 should be able to run with the DBDLIB to be not release dependant.
    about 12 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

    ITS

    Customer's EGL project will translate EGL program into Java program running on WAS server and COBOL program running on CICS. If the Java program and COBOL program have the different parmForm type (COMMPTR and CHANNEL), in some special cases, it wi...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

    Callback mechanism when datagrid detects a size of 0 when rendering children which have data

    When a webservice call is executed, meanwhile the widget which did the action can be closed/changed by another widget (datagrid to detail and back for example) or can be made unvisible (when using a tab mechanism for example). When the webservice ...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

    Use of "Bypass extent checking function " for DEDB Access to improve performance under many parallel I/Os on the same AREA

    Our customer's systems are experiencing lock timeout issues and have seen DASD response times increase during certain times of high transaction rates.About over 100 FP areas from each of the three data sharers have been consolidated and updated wi...
    over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 29 Future consideration

    Connecting to PostgreSQL-database

    Currently, RBD only supports database connections to DB2, Derby, Informix, Oracle and SQL Server. Other database providers (which also have JDBC-drivers) are not supported. We want to be able to connect to a PostgreSQL-database.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Not under consideration

    Create SDEP INDOUBT keyword for SDEP DELETE Processing

    REQUIREMENT: We encountered an INDOUBT segment in our DEDB SDEP section, following the deletion of an EEQE. We were able to execute the SDEP SCAN with the INDOUBT keyword, to process the INDOUBT segment, but we were not able to execute the SDEP DE...
    over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 28 Not under consideration

    add Project name, Package name and your versions on COBOL and JAVA Source

    when the COBOL and JAVA is generated from the EGL, add comment in the source of the project, package, version and date/time of the created of the EGL source location of the program and all function.
    almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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