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IMS emergency restart

IMS emergency restart should be able to handle the situation where IMS is shutdown ( creating a restart checkpoint ), the cold-started, but cold-start abends before taking any checkpoint. At present IMS emergency restart cannot process across a fa...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

* selection for Dictionary API

Require a name extraction API from the new Dictionary (replacement for ACBLIB).The current API allows extraction of IDBD and IPSB defined database and program specifications.In addition to this we require a API that allows all or some information ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Optimize message notification and processing in an IMS frontend/backend situation

Current CQS message processing in an IMS frontend/backend situation should be looked at with regard to optimizing the XCF notification process and reducing the number of CF accesses.
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Optimize (MVS) logging for non-recoverable transactions

Currently an IMS transaction can be defined as non-recoverable which might improve performance because of the reduction in logging done by IMS. However, in a shared queue environment a large part of the logging is done by the MVS logger which is n...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

/DIS UOR should display the related PST information

The output of the /DIS UOR command should display at least the PST# but ideally also other associated information (e.g. MPP jobname, BMP jobname, etc. etc.) for each UOR.
almost 12 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

PRBC0310-1318 Delay in reconnecting IMS to DB2 after a DB2 abend causes extended service impact aka M-^Ssick but not deadM-^T

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Angela LabateSubmitters Company: RBC Financial Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PRBC0310-1318 Delay in reconnecting IMS to DB2 after a DB2 abend causes extended service impact aka M-^Ssick but not deadM-^THo...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

DFSCMTI FUNC=ICMD should provide command authorization checking

Hello, I would like to submit an enhancement request for the IMS DFSCMTI macro interface to provide an option to invoke IMS Command security when using DFSCMTI FUNC=CMD/ICMD. This enhancement is related to IBM Service request number: 67573,227,000...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IVP enhancement

Four IVP enhancements to simplify and ease the installation of a new IMS version.1. Add jobcard parm = SCHENV in the variable gathering. 2. IXUUPROC - Add new variable 'JCLLIB' as a complement to this variable. 3. IXUEX2VS - Is used to define VOLS...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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