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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 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

filter QUERY IMSPLEX on subtypes

The type-2 QUERY command should support filtering not just on TYPE, but also on subtype. Note: not all types have printable character subtypes: I have encountered some that with binary zeros and others with the zero length empty string. It can thi...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

Region bounce commands

Provide commands to bounce MPRs, including bouncing MPRs based on job name, class, transactions that run in that class or programs used by transactions in that class. If there are multiple MPRs, please provide a mechanism to perform rolling bounce...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

SPOC Audit Trail feature should take Audit Log Logstream name from Proclib Member CSLOIxxx - Resubmit of Declined RFE 35661

It would result useful and also safe to have SPOC Audit Trail feature automatically read Audit Log Logstream name from Proclib Member CSLOIxxx instead of requesting user to specify it in Panel CSLUPRA .In addition to ensure a more practical usage ...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

DRD EXPORT should support DDDEF in addition to DSN

The type-2 command EXPORT should support specifying an output DDDEF instead of only permitting a full DSN (and one that doesn't support relative GDG references).
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

DELETE TRAN command to clean RM structure without a tool

After DELETE TRAN and DELETE TRAN DEFN the output from the QRY TRAN command show us TRAN DELETED (transaction name and completion code) of RM structure and that can cause the wrong interpretation, as if the transaction hadn´t been deleted. It woul...
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

/DISPLAY MODIFY ALL as a type-2 command

Provide a single, concise Type-2 command as an alternative to /DISPLAY MODIFY ALL to be incorporated as part of performing online change.
over 9 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 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Have the way / possibility (i.e. a Command) to verify online who / what is occupying the WKAP Pool

As a consequence of the fact Customer randomly suffers WKAP Pool shortage condition, which in the past even lead to an ABENDU0729 then corrected (Pmr 80256,830,758 - Fixed through Apar PK88043), and recently lead to message DFS2026 INSUFFICIENT ST...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Fix to long running CSLUSPOC

When I run a batch CSLUSPOC program with the following command, "EXPORT DEFN TARGET(RDDS) RDDSDSN(IMSVS.TEST.BATCH.RDDS) TYPE(PGM) + OPTION(ALLRSP)", against an IMS that has > 100,000 DRD resources, the job takes 40-50% of the CPU for a couple ...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

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