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Add a facility to alow User show how many Transactions have been processed by a SQ Member

Customer reported that in a Shared Queues environment the /DIS Command Outout does not allow him to verify which IMS in the IMSPlex has processed the Transactions.Customer SP's which are implementing new IMS Shared Queues Environments to proc...
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the IMS SQL batch utility and the IMS DDL generation batch utility

At the moment the only way to execute DDL statements on z/OS is to run the IMS SQL Batch Utility. This utility is using the IMS Universal JDBC Driver to connect to IMS Connect and executes the DDL statements through ODBM. This forces you to setup ...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

XLF: request support for -shared flag consistent with the XLC usage

The XLC compiler accepts the "-shared" flag as an alias to "-qmkshrobj" to create shared object (.so) files, but the XLF compiler does not. The XLF option -shared is not documented but is not identified as invalid when it is used. Using -shared do...
almost 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 4 Not under consideration

Provide a customizable HourGlass ACES Refresh and Stop Delay Time Parameter

HourGlass changes the local time for selective applications that take part in a time journey. The HourGlass ACES table contains the jobnames of jobs that are to run with an altered time and is in ECSA storage.When performing a dynamic ACES replace...
almost 12 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IMS emergency restart should be extended to allow the possibilty of an Emergency Restart "light"

A new Emergency Restart light function following an IMS abend would start IMS, perform all DB backouts and resolve any in-doubt threads but not allow any other work to be started. Following the ERE light IMS should terminate - either automatically...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 1 Not under consideration

OLR for PSINDEX

The OLR function should be available for PSINDEX DBs and should include the healing of any broken pointers as part of the OLR process.
almost 12 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Software Analyzer - changing sub-menu

When you select 'Software Analyzer' first time, you have two options: 'Software Analyzer Configurations..', 'New Configurations'... The design makes you believe that first option allows you to select the existing configurations, and the second - t...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Using coprocessors as independent tools

The use of DB2 and CICS preprocessors is deprecated in favor of the coprocessors built into the Cobol compiler. We would like to be able to use the coprocessors as independent utilities, ie to transform the EXEC commands into Cobol instructions wi...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

Metal C - Compiler option to specify a register to map DSA

Currently Metal C uses Register 13 to map the DSA. Pls add a compiler option, for the user to specify the register that the compiler should use to map the DSA. Register 13 contents usually point to the save area. We have use cases, where the save ...
almost 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Not under consideration

STIM items scheduled on same minute boundary

after some research we found this was because of a peak in activityscheduled from the STIM table.This bottleneck is caused by the STIM table scheduling too many itemson the same minute boundary, this is most noticable after a long outagewhen TPF i...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Not under consideration

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