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System Management

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UNCOND option support for a GSAM resource in IMS managed ACB environment

In a management ACB environment, our customers must execute IMS Catalog Populate utility (DFS3PU00) or ACB Generation and Catalog Populate utility (DFS3UACB) when they update existing PSB/DBD resources. However, sometimes they need to fall back th...
8 months ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Is a defect

Command to refresh preloaded programs in all regions from one IMSPLEX

Although IMS v15 may include a similar new feature: An IMS system programmer using a command can refresh a program that is scheduled in an IFP region or preloaded in DFSMPLxx member without having to restart the region. We need a global command, t...
almost 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future consideration

Allow ISPF SPOC to use max screen width instead of 80 char

Allow ISPF SPOC to utilize the entire width of a user's screen instead of being limited to 80 characters. Current 3270 emulators can even go as high as 160 chars width. Based on some testing that we did, it seems to be a simple enough change (from...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

IMS catalog API (DFS3CATQ) sample program

The customer considers using IMS Catalog API to get DBD or ACB from user program, but no sample program is provided. DBRC API provides a sample program DSPAPSMP in the IMS.ADFSSMPL library. Could you please provide a sample program of IMS Cata...
12 months ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Planned for future release

Refreshable Exit support for additional exits

Provide refreshable exit support for DFSMSCE0 and DFSQSSP0
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

When a /STO SUBSYS and subsequent /STA SUBSYS is issued, IMS has to be restarted in order to make the dep regions pick it up

The customer needs IMS to be able to start subsystems SSM members dinamically when an external subsystem is having issues. Currently, if a sick subsystem is causing problems, issuing a /STO SUBSYS on the sick subsystem and /STA SUBSYS on another S...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Different handling of U0711-1E in a MPP with JVM.

The environment is IMS V14 running IMS MPP with JVM and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. Every ABEND in one of this MPP with JVM dependent region causes the rebuild of the JVM wit...
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under 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...
12 months ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Planned for future release

A new option of DFS3CATQ GET for removing metadata

We'd like to request a new option of IMS Catalog API (DFS3CATQ FUNC=GET, FORMAT=DBDLIB, MBR=xxxxxx) to exclude a extended fields table for metadata from an output DBD. Metadata is not needed for IMS database reorganization. In the IMS Catalog API ...
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future consideration

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

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