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control authority to issue commands with wildcards

Allow controlling who has authority on issuing commands with wildcards
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

allowing limiting access on commands to individual TRANs and PGMs

Allow extra granularity for controlling and granting access to a group or individual to issues commands against specific transactions or programs, potentially by the program or transaction name to a RACF profile name.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

IMS CHECKPOINT : queuing of the COMMANDS

Actually, when an IMS command is entered when there is a SYSTEM CHECKPOINT, the command is rejected. The command should be queued instead.
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

IMS Dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB

To be able to activate the dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB. For example, modifications of DB POOLS by reading DFSVSM*. So that the updates of the Proclib be validated.
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

Provide a command to create a DB Alloc Record for a database in DBRC Recon

Provide a command to create an ALLOC record for a database in DBRC Recon dataset. Today an ALLOC record is only created when a DLI update call is issued against the database.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Command to display Regions with PWFI=N

Please provide an IMS command to easily list all regions/MPRs that are running based on PWFI=N or PWFI=Y.
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

Allow attribute and status in Query commands.

It isn't possible to update attribute and staus in the same command, but this is also tru for Query command.Enabling the QUERY with both Attribute and Status as filter would ease the analysis.
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

CREATE IMSCON TYPE(PORT) command need MbrName parameter capability

I would like to activate a new PORT for IMS Connect using the CREATE Command. The issue is we have duplicate ports (different LPARS) in the same IMS PLEX. You can see below when I issue the following command that PORT 9000 is defined in 3 IMS Conn...
about 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Improve the process to update EXPRTIME

EXPRTIME should not fail as a result of a transaction being scheduled
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

added granularity to security around commands

TYPE-1 commands allowing granting a user start, stop, lock, and unlock authority separate from the authority to change other metadata, such as changing a TRAN from parallel to serial or setting EDITUC. TYPE-2 commands should support this, too, but...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

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