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System Management

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IMS Support for VSAM Linear database Buffer pools 64 bit addressable

Support for VSAM LINEAR datasets for IMS databases was delivered for the enhancement for databases dataset encryption in 2020. The buffer pools for VSAM LINEAR datasets are still treated like OSAM buffer pools with 31 bit addressability. Anthem ha...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Add a LOCATE and FIND facilities to Syntax Checker

Since DFSPBxxx with the last IMS Versions has become a quite big Memeber, not always easy to navigate into, the availability of LOCATE and FIND funtions would help i.e. in finding a specific parameter. - Please change the visibility of this RFE to...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Message in CTL region indicating that 64-bit log buffers have successfylly been enabled.

After the 64-bit log buffers (BUFSTOR=64) have been enabled there should be a message written in the CTL region indicating that the buffer has successfully been enabled in a similar way that is done for the FPBP64.It would be beneficial if the val...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Move EPCB and CSAPSB Pool above the 64-bit bar

Mizuho-bank is now designing new account system and experiencing ECSA shortage.The main contributing factors are EPCB and CSAPSB pools, despite the efforts of IMS technical team to shrink each PSB size (cutting off the DBPCBs) and reduce IFP regio...
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Enhance DFSDASP0 to not suppress messages when it issues the RACF AUTH call (when ODBASE=Y)

It was determined that we will rely on APSB security checking to control access for applications using the DVM product to access IMS data. This is working as expected. However, we are only getting the following in our system log:DFS2855A APSB SECU...
about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future 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 ...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 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...
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 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.
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Syntax Checker should support all members of the IMS PROCLIB

Syntax Checker should support all members of the IMS PROCLIB, and be able to guess the member type based on the member name.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under 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 proc...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

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