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Add EXTERALNAME to all IVP databases to create better catalog entries

Add the EXTERNALNAME keyword to all the IVP databases so they have good application names for the COBOL SQL feature of IMS v13
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Fetching Vendor data from Directory

Vendor data that gets stored in Directory needs to be read by vendor batch utilities (PFX utilities). We need mechanism in DFS3CATQ i.e. if requested it should return the vendor data may be ignore the other meta data both from active as well stagi...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

DFS3CATQ API Open call with the DEFINITION=CONCAT

We at BMC are utilizing the DFS3CATQ API Open call with the DEFINITION=BOTH parameter that allows for requesting IMS control blocks from either STAGING or ACTIVE IMS Directories. We have multiple scenarios in our products code base where it is nec...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Validate input to DFSEIPB0

In this case, a COBOL program made a call and passed garbage as the input parameter list. DFSEIPB0 happily used this and issued a GETMAIN for close to 16M of below the line storage which is impossible to satisfy and resulted in an ABEND80A. With n...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS auto-resume connection at warm start

- new feature:IMS automatically reconnects an IMS-DB2 connection regardless of the latest connection status at IMS shutdown, if introdiced and specified a new parameter like "FORCERECONNECT=YES".- present work:If IMS-DB2 connection was not active ...
about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Display removed DB, after cmd CHANGE.SUBSYS ABNORMAL

1:display removed DB after enter CHANGE.SUBSYS ABNORMAL cmd. 2:display warning msg after CHANGE.SUBSYS NORMAL cmd for removed DB.3:display warning msg after LIST.SUB cmd for removed DB.
about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

IMS segments should support triggers, such as could be used for imbedding timestamps without needing application changes

It would be great if IMS had the option of creating triggers that could fire up after INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE operations, to maintain data in segments of the same database without needing application changes
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS segments should allow setting default values and autogenerated sequence numbers

It would be great if IMS had the option of defining segments with auto-generated values, whether they are defaults or incremental numbers, like identities.
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Continuous replication in case of OLDS/SLDS I/O error for IIDR for IMS

We plan to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS to replicate DB changes from Main system to DR system. Capture sever stops replication when OLDS/SLDS I/O error occurs. If unplanned switch occurs at that timing, lost data is larger than norm...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

Quiesce command with deallocate option for DB ALTER without an outage

IMS API or Command support is needed as to quiesce database access within IMS and to activate database metadata changes. IMS Tools reorganization utility will invoke it to perform the online reorganization and activate a database change without a ...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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