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IBM IDR product should show the complete DDL change in the CDC Management Console for platforms

IBM IDR product should show the complete DDL statement changed made on the source system in the CDC Management Console for platforms Right now to debug and detect the exact DDL change we need to look at the source dmts log files on source system. ...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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

An IMS command 'prior' to IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG)

Hi, IBM do not have a 'prior' command to issue before IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG) for ACB online change in managed ACBs environment. A 'prior' command should have the capability to see the resources being changed in staging directory dataset and t...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 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

HALDB multiple HLQ for VSAM indexes and DBD names

State of TN uses multiple High Level Qualifiers for OSAM and VSAM definition - i.e. DSNPREF parameter needs to allow multiple parameters - VDE* for VSAM and DE* for OSAM / HALDB
about 4 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...
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

DB2/RHEL/Systemd compliance gaps

Our mutual customer has identified several gaps in functionality with regard to the IBM DB2 database that were exposed when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 transitioned from a System V init environment to systemd for booting and service initialization....
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Maintain good compression ratio for insert after load in BLU automatcially without unload and reload

We usually insert data to the same table daily and may be housekeep data from the table daily after retention period.Update will be less frequent but we found that update in column-organized table takes very long time due to the insert+delete oper...
over 4 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

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