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Installation and Configuration

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Change IMS Catalog Definition Exit DFS3CDX0 to make it more user friendly

DFS3CDX0 is used to provide settings and attributes of the IMS Catalog to Batch application programs.It is an alternative to code “xxx” in the JCL of batch jobs for referencing to DFSDFxxx Member in IMS.PROCLIB. Currently all parameters from DFSDF...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 2 Not under consideration

rightsizing OLDS BUFNO when BUFSTOR=64

IMS V12 introduced BUFSTOR=64 with following value propositions:reduced ECSA consumptionreduced CPU consumption due to less TLB misses in DAT .Currently the way to that goals is paved with some obstacles.APAR PM50656 disabled the feature 'round up...
almost 4 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Future consideration

DFS2291I message only mode of operation

Message DFS2291I is issued when DFSVSMxx keyword LOCKTIME is used. Today LOCKTIME has 2 options ABEND or STATUS. We have the need for a new option MSGONLY that results ina) no action against the waiterb) message DFS2291I being issued to syslogc) t...
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

new option TERMBLOK for LOCKTIME in DFSVSMxx

Today LOCKTIME only has 2 options ABEND or STATUS. We have the need for a new option TERMBLOK that results ina) terminating the top blocker when timeout threshold is exceeded, i.e. DFSLLKX0 is called b) message DFS2291I being issued to syslogc) th...
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Name the IMS IVP PCBs so they can be used with IMS Explorer

In order to use the IMS Explorer with the provided IMS IVP and Sample applications, all the PCBs must be named.They are currently not named, and we need to modify them ourselves.They need a simple update to name the PCBs for all users to be able t...
over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Externalize the DFSDFxxx PROCLIB values at IMS initialization

Externalize the DFSDFxxx PROCLIB values at IMS initialization. Currently the FastPath section of DFSDFxxx member is externalized when IMS starts, but we would like the ability to view the remainder of the parameters, to identify what was used at I...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to remove MTO LTERM

When SA IMS automation is implemented there will be no Netview TAF-terminal dequeueing the messages from the MTO LTERM.
almost 7 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Create/update DVSVC000 at IMS control region start

IMS should create the DFSVC000 member at a cold start. or IMS should override the IMS ID from the Sysgen process in the DFSVC000 member with the IMSID provided in the DFSPBxxx member at a cold start.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Treat CPUTIME and COUNT in PROCLIM independent of each other in determining U240 Tran abend

Currently, a transaction can have a max time equal to the product of CPU-time-per-transaction and count as specified in the PROCLIM parm. This means that if the count needs to be adjusted for tuning purposes, it will have an impact to how long a l...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

IMS VUE Inclusion Parm

IMS implementation of VUE (Value Unit Edition) licensing requires a new FMID be applied/accepted, and an ALL gen performed. The presence of the FMID in the dlibs/dzone generates the system as VUE - with no parm to override.We need to support both ...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

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