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    Call Image Capture should include calls to DEDBs

    The TRACE PSB command produces log records that show each DL/I call with SSA info and PCB and segment image results. This is known as Call Image Capture. It is a great debugging tool for applications with DB issues. This tool does not currently in...
    over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Not under consideration

    IMS Catalog does not support DBCS/GRAPHIC fields

    COBOL and PL/I support DBCS or GRAPHIC fields. These are pure double byte values - no shift in/shift out characters. The IMS catalog does not support this datatype.
    over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

    IMS catalog does not support the specification of PL/I BIT fields and BIT arrays

    Take, for example, BIT2, BIT3, BIT4 and BIT58 in this PL/I data declaration:DCL 1 RECORD_LAYOUT_01, 3 CHR5 CHAR(5), 3 BIT1 BIT(1), 3 BIT2 BIT(1), 3 BIT3 BIT(1), 3 BIT4 BIT(1), 3 BIT58 BIT(4), 3 CHR74 CHAR(74); The IMS catalog does not support the ...
    over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Not under consideration

    Performance impact when compiling with DB2 coprocessor

    When preparing a Cobol-DB2 program with integrated DB2 coprocessor, the Cobol compiler generate an unique SQLDA and feeds it before each SQL access, (DB2 pr?-processor generate an independant SQLDA for each SQL access, and resolve host-variable ad...
    almost 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

    Implementation of LOCKMAX in IMS DBCTL

    I would like IBM to make LOCKMAX available in an IMS DBCTL environment.
    about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

    UPDATE DATAGRP NAME(datagrpname) STOP(UPDATES)

    The UPDATE DATAGRP NAME(datagrpname) STOP(UPDATES) command should enable stopping updates for a whole group of databases with one command. This should be also possible with a DBD DATAGRP datagrpname command. This RFE is the result of PMR 34940,077...
    over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

    Eliminate recording mode warning

    RECORDING MODE is an IBM extension that is required only to "specif[y] the format of the physical records in a QSAM file", and unless one needs format 'U' it can be assumed based on the other characteristics of the file definition. I would like to...
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

    Ask for OPEN I-O statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

    We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when the file is open in I-O in a Cobol Program, COBOL open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We...
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    Cobol V5 sequence detection

    Detect the following sequence at compilation with a warning : 'move num-4b (binary format) to num-4p (packed format)' that can give truncation at execution
    over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

    VSAM Buffer Type to reflect BOTH

    When a VSAM buffer is defined and no "TYPE" parameters are specified in the DFSVSMxx member - the VSAM Buffer is really utilized by both INDEX and DATA - however in Omegamon/Tivoli and manual it says it defaults to DATA. It would be better servere...
    over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 4 Not under consideration

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