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System Management

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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

More then 1 data set for staging ACBLIB DFSMDA member.

As per current design Dynamic Allocation for the ACBLIB staging library allow only one data set to be specified. The DFSMDA TYPE=IMSACB macro allow only one data set and should be modified to allow more then one specification.
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Not under consideration

Add new IMS Restart command/parameter in Shared Queue Environment

After IMS Shared Queue implementation Customer created new procedures to start the IMSSQ in a Disaster Recovery Site. We must to delete/redefine the SRDS (Structure Recovery), CHKPT (Checkpoints) control datasets, delete/redefine the logstream of ...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Add tran code to HWSD0252W msg

We recently had a problem involving messages sent from IMS Connect clients timing out. Knowing the IMS transaction that is being requested would save time in problem determination. HWSD0252W UNABLE TO SEND RESPONSE FROM DS=IMS21 TO CLIENT=HWSOU0EB...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Reject huge Web Service requests/responses in ICON

This requirement has been submitted as MR1220125727. To prevent individual Web Service requests from blocking ICON instances they should be rejected by ICON. Instead, a SOAP Fault should be returned. This should be done for SOAP requests or PL/I r...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

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