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Endevor/Carma support for userdata

Our host implementation of Endevor relies heavily on the Endevor USERDATA field stored with every version of the element in the Endevor MCF. We have used the newly introduce QuikEdit extensions to Display and Modify the Userdata. As a general rul...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Not under consideration

RTMC file ID support

Problem statement: Real-time runtime metrics collection support reports finds and file counts. But you can't tell which files are being accessed by a message, which files are being accessed more/less over time on the system or by a specific messag...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

PRBC0310-1318 Delay in reconnecting IMS to DB2 after a DB2 abend causes extended service impact aka M-^Ssick but not deadM-^T

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Angela LabateSubmitters Company: RBC Financial Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PRBC0310-1318 Delay in reconnecting IMS to DB2 after a DB2 abend causes extended service impact aka M-^Ssick but not deadM-^THo...
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Reprocessing of messages after ESS returned a not ready condition at Phase I.

IMS should not reprocess messages in case an ESS system is returning a "not ready" condition at Phase one.This may lead to different problems into IMS as we have seen in our customer environment . The following are just two examples of what can oc...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 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 ...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

PRBC0310-1318 Delay in reconnecting IMS to DB2 after a DB2 abend causes extended service impact aka M-^Ssick but not deadM-^T

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Angela LabateSubmitters Company: RBC Financial Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PRBC0310-1318 Delay in reconnecting IMS to DB2 after a DB2 abend causes extended service impact aka M-^Ssick but not deadM-^THo...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

DFSCMTI FUNC=ICMD should provide command authorization checking

Hello, I would like to submit an enhancement request for the IMS DFSCMTI macro interface to provide an option to invoke IMS Command security when using DFSCMTI FUNC=CMD/ICMD. This enhancement is related to IBM Service request number: 67573,227,000...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IVP enhancement

Four IVP enhancements to simplify and ease the installation of a new IMS version.1. Add jobcard parm = SCHENV in the variable gathering. 2. IXUUPROC - Add new variable 'JCLLIB' as a complement to this variable. 3. IXUEX2VS - Is used to define VOLS...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance /DIS DESC command to display ETO and OTMA descriptors

The /DIS DESC command should be enhanced to display ETO and OTMA descriptors.
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 1 Not under consideration

IMS ACEE Refresh

The customer needed to activate logging option for an userid of an IMS region through UAUDIT RACF attribute. When they tried to deactivate logging (NOUAUDIT) but they didnt succeed, the user was still being audited. PMR 71957,228,631 deals with th...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration