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System Management

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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...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

option to force DFS681I to be in JOBLOG

Provide a system level setting that would allow forcing DFS681I to be printed in BMP joblogs, overriding any suppression that might be in the individual job.
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Monitor and report on number of requests queued to the command and message processing service thread ( DFSCMTI0 )

Monitor and report on number of requests queued to the command and message processing service thread ( DFSCMTI0 ). We would like WTOs at thresholds (either IBM provided or user provided) that could be picked up and acted on by an automation product.
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Improve GOLC for 24x7 by relaxing requirement that all IMS systems are up.

GOLC requirement to have all IMS systems up (or you are forced to do a cold start) severely constrains operations from running IMS per business needs in a 24x7 environment where other scheduling or operational issues may require processors to be d...
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Syntax Checker should make it easy to find what the highlighting and colors mean

There doesn't appear to be documentation about what the various colors and underlines mean in the Syntax Checker. That should be easy to find in the Information Center and from the online help when hitting PF1.
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 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.
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Want HOST batch process to add new ODBM fields to DBDs & PSBs

There are new & changed DBD & PSB statements for extended Object exploitation by Java. IMS Explorer will add the new fields, but that means the source of the current DBD, PSB, & COPYBOOK must be uploaded. The source is manipulated &...
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 process s...
over 10 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...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

SLDSREAD to retry automatically on secondary dataset

Testing the new feature SLDSREAD on IMS v11 and we have found a situation that we think is not correct. IMS always tries to mount the primary SLDS dataset even though it has an i/o error, it has been deleted or it has been marked in error. Several...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

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