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    OSAM Encryption for 4K or smaller blocksizes

    OSAM Encryption (VSAM linear data set) currently has a minimum blocksize of 4K which would inhibit our ability to implement pervasive encryption. A large proportion of our databases have blocksizes smaller than 4K and more are moving in that direc...
    about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

    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 5 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...
    over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 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...
    over 5 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...
    over 11 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...
    over 11 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
    almost 6 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.
    over 11 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...
    about 12 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Is a defect

    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....
    about 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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