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Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes

The requirement is to monitor end-to-end access from requester to the databases. The audit information must be available in real time to a Security Information and Event Management system (QRadar). Monitoring is for both inbound and outbound acces...
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Not under consideration

CLEANUP.RECON should clean up bad/orphan records

Please update the DBRC command CLEANUP.RECON to delete bad and orphan records
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

DB2 Backup Object Size to Reflect in Metadata

Currently DB2 doesn't provide backup object size in Admin_Hist or any metadata tables. It writes to diag but that's very challenging to read and interpret . If backup object size info added to metadata it will help for planning our backup storage ...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Heartbeat message for long running IMPORTs under managed ACBs

In an IMS managed ACB environment the IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG) command is being used to activated previously generated directory control blocks for PSBs and DBDs. If you are importing a larger number of control blocks, the import processing can...
almost 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Add warning option when setting a DFSVSMxx LOCKTIME value

Currently when setting LOCKTIME in DFSVSMxx to set a timeout value, the options available for BMPOPT and MSGOPT are to either abend, or return a BD status code to the application. Neither are currently feasible because the application may not be a...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 28 Not under consideration

Altering IMS database mapping cases and fields within it using DDL

Based on the current IMS ALTER TABLE syntax documentation, there is currently no way to add a single mapping case or to drop a single mapping case at the moment. You can only drop the complete mapping definition and add it again including the addi...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

DFS2291I: include IMSID in the SHORT message

Change the LONG form of DFS2291I lock timeout message to be a multi-line WTO, to make it easier for Automation products to extract the necessary data from the individual messages, in order to take action such as cancel the top lock blocker. At pre...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

Allow definition of fields in the filler segment of an IMS db without required DBR for catalog

We currently define segments in a Data Base Definition (DBD), along with a key field. The remaining segment length does not have data fields defined in the DBD. We define data fields in external copybooks. Therefore, there is no outage of the data...
about 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

DFS3LU00 should allow the user to choose to generate control blocks and statements from the Catalog Staging area

When using DFS3LU00 to generate DBD or PSB source statements or control blocks, only DBDs or PSBs in the active portion of the IMS catalog are considered. There is no way to specify generation from the staging portion of the IMS catalog.
almost 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

New option to generate DBD without metadata

We would like to have a new DBDGEN option that enables users to generate a DBD without an extended fields table for metadata. For example, we propose adding a new macro like below, which precedes other DBDGEN macros and allows users to specify not...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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