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Directed Load from DFSRESLB for IMS Catalog API modules

When making a GET request to the IMS Catalog API (DFS3CATQ) the API loads or causes to be loaded 4 modules that reside in the IMS RESLIB DFS3CQ90DFS3DCNCDFS3PCNCDFS3RVRS By having these module loaded using a non-directed load the RESLIB must be av...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

IMS catalog does not support non-unique column names within segment

Column names must be unique within the segment. However, for COBOL and PL/I, the field names within a data structure don't have to be unique.Only the fully qualified name - for example, data-name-1 in data-name-2 in data-name-2 - has to be unique....
about 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog does not support all the variants of zoned decimal that COBOL supports

COBOL supports these variants of zoned decimal:Unsigned, Sign trailing, Sign trailing separate, Sign leading and Sign leading separate.The IMS catalog only supports the Sign leading separate variant.
about 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Allow storage of 88-Level Metadata in IMS Catalog

We are attempting to use the IMS Catalog to replace the functionality of our data dictionary. With the current database structure, we would be able to implement almost all of the needed functions except for keeping track of our 88-levels for field...
about 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Allow DBRC=N for Restoring HALDB

DBRC=Y is good only when you need to perform Disaster Recovery to production region whereby it will ensure the integrity of the HALDB image copies being restored. However, most of the time DBA is performing restoration from their past HALDB backup...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS DB/Area Quiesce DBRC Enhancement

Database/Area Quiesce records that a quiesce has taken place by setting a flag in the DBRC ALLOC record. However this only applies if the database/area was actually open for update on an IMS subsystem at the time of the quiesce - otherwise there i...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Catalog IMS - JCL/BMP/PSB

We would like to have one additional information in the IMS catalog: the link between the name of JCLLIB, the JCL jobname and the PSB used by the BMP.
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

modify the MSDB-to-DEDB Conversion utility (DBFUCDB0)

hi would like to know if you can modify the utility to correctly report the record count for databases with more than 32K database records because larger record counts cause it to wrap and/or be interpreted as a negative binary number. it would be...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Is a defect

OLR for PSINDEX

The OLR function should be available for PSINDEX DBs and should include the healing of any broken pointers as part of the OLR process.
about 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Support for wildcard in DDL DROP for IMS Databases and PSBs

We refresh and rebuild test environment from production where we cleanup everything in test and build using the components from production by changing component names. So we could use DDL DROP with wildcard where we can erase the test definitions ...
3 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

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