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Please enhance the Data Level and DECB views

Please enhance the Data Level and DECB views to have a right click "copy block contents to clipboard" action.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

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...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

MQ Trace needs some improvements for better Customer support

During an issue where we needed to provide IBM with MQ traces we had a difficult time getting these. Having to take the RTA and mount on a linux system doesn't work for us, so we had to copy the VTS RTA tape to a VTAPE volume and to use on Linux i...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

VSAM function in IBM File Manager

System: Product File Manager form zOS Description: We would like to see an enhancement to the IBM File Manager VSAM/DISK panels. We would like to see more information on VSAM datasets, and specifically the percent utilized amounts that IBM uses fo...
almost 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

HALDB multiple HLQ for VSAM indexes and DBD names

State of TN uses multiple High Level Qualifiers for OSAM and VSAM definition - i.e. DSNPREF parameter needs to allow multiple parameters - VDE* for VSAM and DE* for OSAM / HALDB
almost 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

job names at the top of installation paragraphs in the program directory

improve the useability of the program directory by putting jobnames at the top of each section of the program directory's installation chapter.
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

enable "FIND" in IMS IVPs

Enable the "FIND" function in the IMS IVPs for variable names and contents, job and step names
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Collapse the File Tailoring and Execution phases to a single phase in the IMS IVPs

Collapse the File Tailoring and Execution phases to a single phase in the IMS IVPs to modify the JCL as needed and then to submit it before moving on to the next step.
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Allow file tailoring via batch

Allow the file tailoring step to be executed via a batch job instead of requiring an interactive TSO session.
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

IVPs should not update SDFSRESL

The IVPs for IMS should be entirely contained within datasets allocated for the IVPs. However, they currently modify some datasets, like SDFSRESL..
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration