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Command and WTO to get the Catalog state

We would like to have an IMS command to get the Catalog state (active or not). And, it would be nice to have this Catalog stage at the start of IMS (with a WTO).
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

Remote text search in JES joblog

RDz is now lacking the capability of doing remote text search in JES joblog. It required users to open the joblog first. But that doesn't work if users want to do a text search on a large joblog (with million's of line)
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Add TASK option for ENQ API in TXSeries

Add the TASK option to the ENQ API.
over 10 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Incomplete display of subsystems in SPOC on /DIS SUBSYS ALL

As descriped in the PMR, when in SPOC a "/DIS SUBSYS ALL" command is entered, not all information about a subsystem that uses a "<" as subsystem recognition character, is displayed. In IMS it is very well displayed.Example (SPOC):IMS3 1 CONN IM...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Is a defect

RDz9.0.1.2- COBOL program control Flow issue - PMR 50537,004,000

Problem description Hi, We have an issue with Program Control Flow option on a COBOL source module. when we open the program control flow for a cobol module, we get the program control flow view and see all paragraphs in the COBOL source module. T...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Future consideration

Repository batch interface

Customer would like to have the possibility to directly access the IMS V12 Repository dataset via a batch utility in order to generate flat file (and/or sysout). This batch utility is requested in order to avoid any impact with online activity and...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to display (List) all or selected REPO resources belonging to a specific IMSid

Customer would like to have the possibility to directly display (list) all or the selected IMS V12 Repository resources belonging to a specific IMS id. He would like to have this capability as a directed option within the Query command (without an...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

the "find all" in the cobol editor

have the "find all" function in the COBOL Editor as for the LPEX editor
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Naming of the Omegamon XE agents

Each zOS based Omegamon product agent has its own method of determining the hostname for the agent. This naming is hard coded and the methodology can be different between the different agents. Thats's why it is necessary to get the CTIRA_HOSTNAME ...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Multiple RESLIB levels support for DBRC API

Currently, to use DBRC API, the IMS RESLIB must be allocated to a job. This requirement becomes a problem when a tool that needs to access to multiple RECON sets that are at different IMS levels. DBRC API should allow for an option on the STARTDBR...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

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