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Invalidate GUR cache / update SQL metadata

IMS caches DBD and PSB metadata for IMS applications and JDBC based tools using SQL access to IMS databases in the so called GUR cache. There are situations in which an invalidation of this cache would be helpful like situations in which DBD metad...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

IDAA Incremental COPY support for IMS

Add additional functionality to RFE Request ID 46246,"IDAA supprt for IMS". In 46246, new function which transform and load IMS data into IDAA appliance is requested.By this method, data latency is dependent on execution of load interval. In order...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog audit trail userid

IMS catalog audit trail SMF record 29-03 does not have end user userid. SMF record 29-03 has ODBM STC userid which is not useful. We need to know the end user who submitted DDL.
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 4 Not under consideration

Add support for dynamic arrays in the Catalog and IMS Explorer-created Database Views

REQUIREMENT: When performing some preliminary testing for accessing IMS data through the Catalog, we ran into an error for one of our segments that stated dynamic arrays were not supported when creating the PCB object. This is a potential showstop...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

IDAA support for IMS

Please provide similar function to IDAA for IMS. We need both functions like following. a) Transform IMS hierarchal data to relational data format and load it into IDAA appliance.b) When SQLs come into IMS DB, then route these SQLs to IDAA applian...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

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