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    Need DFS3PU00 to create datasets on selected volser

    When our customers setup Managed ACB for the first time in their environment, we don't want to let them manually estimate the size of Catalog Database, Secondary Index, Directory, BSDS, Staging, therefore our recommendation is to create these data...
    about 4 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 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

    Configuration refresh and relative generation

    The ability to refresh the policy configuration screen should provide the same dsn codification as the INGAMS command
    over 1 year ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

    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 12 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 9 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

    When configuring LDAP/SDBM remove the need for a static 'admin' ID with password and ROAUDIT access

    An ideal situation would be if the initial LDAP bind and subsequent query to determine group membership could be conducted under each individual user's specific DN. Under LDAP/SDBM the following bind and search returns multiple LDAP attributes for...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

    IMS catalog API (DFS3CATQ) GSAM support

    There is a restriction that GSAM ACB or DBD control blocks cannot be retrieved from the IMS catalog by using the GET request of the IMS catalog API. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ims/15.4.0?topic=dfs3catq-get-request-get-ims-catalog-api The cust...
    about 2 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Planned for future release

    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 4 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future consideration

    SMU - Extension eezdocker.sh with command for restart UAA only

    The eezdocker.sh script supports the most common commands to execute commands in the SMU container.With the Restart option, only the entire container can currently be restarted, which causes the application to be interrupted.So it would be desirab...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 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 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

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