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IMS Database Manager

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FPBP64M does not take effect to current working (scheduling) applications

We found that FPBP64M potential system outage risk like a real storage shortage, the FPBP64M current design is not able to protect the real storage shortage because current applications can expand the FPBP64 pool unlimitedly beyond the value of FP...
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Setting DB2 Client Information from an IMS application

Provide an API for IMS applications to make it possible to provide client information to DB2. This requires modification to IMS ESAF and DB2 IMS Attachment API to actually pass client info. This would require a change to the IMS ESAF and DB2 Signo...
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Improve IMS performance for DLI calls that hit empty areas.

Improve IMS performance for DLI calls that hit empty areas. By “empty “ we intend to mean - areas that have no data populated in them since allocation , OR an area that had some data but it was deleted and is now empty. And this should target proc...
almost 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Support

Support use of FlashCopy to make database copies/backups when the database is on a mirrored volume.
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

DB2/RHEL/Systemd compliance gaps

Our mutual customer has identified several gaps in functionality with regard to the IBM DB2 database that were exposed when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 transitioned from a System V init environment to systemd for booting and service initialization....
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Add support for dynamic arrays in the Catalog and IMS Explorer-created Database Views

REQUIREMENT: When performing some preliminary testing for accessing IMS data through the Catalog, we ran into an error for one of our segments that stated dynamic arrays were not supported when creating the PCB object. This is a potential showstop...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

Maintain good compression ratio for insert after load in BLU automatcially without unload and reload

We usually insert data to the same table daily and may be housekeep data from the table daily after retention period.Update will be less frequent but we found that update in column-organized table takes very long time due to the insert+delete oper...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Allow DBRC=N for Restoring HALDB

DBRC=Y is good only when you need to perform Disaster Recovery to production region whereby it will ensure the integrity of the HALDB image copies being restored. However, most of the time DBA is performing restoration from their past HALDB backup...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS DB/Area Quiesce DBRC Enhancement

Database/Area Quiesce records that a quiesce has taken place by setting a flag in the DBRC ALLOC record. However this only applies if the database/area was actually open for update on an IMS subsystem at the time of the quiesce - otherwise there i...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

archecker include new switches/options

Please add a "-y" or -"YES" switch to achecker. This would allow us to check the archive in the script right after the archive without human interaction. There are multiple way to check to see if previous program failed ( && and $? with test)
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

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