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System Management

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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.
almost 10 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.
about 10 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...
over 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.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 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 &...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 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.
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 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...
over 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...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Modifications in ICON to exploit upcoming changes in PL/I memory layout and RDz

This requirement has been submitted as MR1220127810. RFE ID 29703 requests the PL/I compiler to handle varchar variables of complex structures in a way that allows the size of IMS Web Service requests and responses to be minimized. RFE ID 29705 re...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 0 Not under consideration

Parallel execution of converters

This requirement has been submitted as MR0516124555. Once large applications will go into production, Credit Suisse has a huge number of concurrent Web Service requests. It is expected that the system will not perform satisfactorily if the convert...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Not under consideration

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