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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 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

/VUNLOAD command for Local VSO is available during application processing.

/VUNLOAD command for Shared VSO during application processing works fine. But for Local VSO, it causes status code FH.
almost 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

RFE 36920 interface documentation

We need the RFE 36920 interface documentation for exploitation purposes.
about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

Adding DDL space statements per Area or Partition

DDL space statements per Area or Partition We would like to have the space statement for area or partition in DDL statement similar to DB2. DB2:CREATE TABLESPACE EDASHF01 IN DDASHF00 NUMPARTS 124 (PART 1 USING STOGROUP DB2HAE PRIQTY 266400 SECQTY ...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

Add clean-up of bad/orphan recoreds to REPAIR.RECON

REPAIR.RECON needs to be able to clean up bad/orphan records - especially orphan'ed LOGALLs. See 58537,L6Q,000 for details. We had LOGALL record from 2005. The CLEANUP.RECON doesn't get rid of the orphan & currently IMS 14's REPAIR.RECON will ...
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

prevention of IMS archive RC=08 after two SWITCH commands was issued almost at the same time

* System *IMS V13.1 * Problem detail * Two OLDS switch commands were submitted almost at the same time.One is by IMS due to OLDS full, and the other is by user. OLDS04　↓SWITCH by IMS-->archive job1 was createdOLDS03:empty　↓SWITCH by USER-->a...
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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 8 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 8 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 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Not under consideration

Implementation of LOCKMAX in IMS DBCTL

I would like IBM to make LOCKMAX available in an IMS DBCTL environment.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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