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System Management

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A new option of DFS3CATQ GET for removing metadata

We'd like to request a new option of IMS Catalog API (DFS3CATQ FUNC=GET, FORMAT=DBDLIB, MBR=xxxxxx) to exclude a extended fields table for metadata from an output DBD. Metadata is not needed for IMS database reorganization. In the IMS Catalog API ...
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future consideration

Add a facility to alow User show how many Transactions have been processed by a SQ Member

Customer reported that in a Shared Queues environment the /DIS Command Outout does not allow him to verify which IMS in the IMSPlex has processed the Transactions.Customer SP's which are implementing new IMS Shared Queues Environments to process s...
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Different handling of U0711-1E in a MPP with JVM.

The environment is IMS V14 running IMS MPP with JVM and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. Every ABEND in one of this MPP with JVM dependent region causes the rebuild of the JVM wit...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Reduce CPU usage of writing x'99' logs by zIIP offload

We are planning to use IIDR for IMS for next disaster recovery system. We need to change DBD definitions of source IMS system to write x'99' logs for replication. We conducted performance test on the source IMS system with x'99' logs and CPU cost ...
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Improve function for compress of IMS type99 log using H/W component instead of MVS service

We plan to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS for next disaster recovery system. It needs new IMS type99 log records for data replication at source system.The source system's CPU usage was increased 20 percents by adding type99 log. We wo...
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Refresh exit DFSINSX0

DFSINSX0 - Request to dynamically load user exit
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Resolve huge ECSA usage problem caused by DMHR

Our customer is now designing new account system and they caused ECSA shortage by plenty of DMHRs.This main contributing factor is BMP batch a lot of insert calls toward one area.When initial create they needs to insert 800 million root segments t...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Modification to the IMS X'04C' log record

In order to monitor users who are performing specific IMS commands, we are requesting that the IMS DFSLOG4C macro (x'04C log record) be modified to include the USERID of the requester. The IMS commands we are interested in are STOPs/STARTs (includ...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Allow ISPF SPOC to use max screen width instead of 80 char

Allow ISPF SPOC to utilize the entire width of a user's screen instead of being limited to 80 characters. Current 3270 emulators can even go as high as 160 chars width. Based on some testing that we did, it seems to be a simple enough change (from...
almost 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Request for new IMS ODBM Query Timeout to stop long-running ODBM Queries from further processing

With our increased usage of IMS ODBM, we have the need for an additional IMS ODBM Query Timeout to stop long-running ODBM Queries from further processing. We would like to be able to specify the Query timeout in both Wall clock time and CPU time.
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration