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IMS System Services

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DELETE TRAN command to clean RM structure without a tool

After DELETE TRAN and DELETE TRAN DEFN the output from the QRY TRAN command show us TRAN DELETED (transaction name and completion code) of RM structure and that can cause the wrong interpretation, as if the transaction hadn´t been deleted. It woul...
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

PTDB0899-215 IMS - Dynamic allocation/deallocation of external subsystems datasets

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Pierre MaroisSubmitters Company: TD Bank Financial Group PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PTDB0899-215 IMS - Dynamic allocation/deallocation of external subsystems datasetsHomework Assigned: Requirement Category: ...
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Need logic in IMS and DBRC to 'synchronize' the process between IMS and DBRC during termination

When an IMS /CHE FREEZE command was issued the DBRC address space took a S0C1 abend which caused the IMS Control Region to abend with an U0495. My understand is that there is a synchronization issue between the different address spaces within IMS ...
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Resolve SMPE Restore issue with Usermods containing JCLIN for DFSCSI00

We want to submit a RFE request to ask IBM to resolve the SMP/E Restore issue where inline JCLIN for Module DFSCSI00 requires special handling to successfully restore the usermod. While IBM has supplied a documented process which does allow us to ...
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 2 Not under consideration

/DISPLAY MODIFY ALL as a type-2 command

Provide a single, concise Type-2 command as an alternative to /DISPLAY MODIFY ALL to be incorporated as part of performing online change.
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Type 2 commands for REGIONS

provide type 2 commands for regions that support the functionality of type 1 commands. Examples of type 1 commands to convert:/DISPLAY ACTIVE REGIONS/STA REG xxxx/STO REG xxxx Please also build in RACF security so that individuals/groups can issue...
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

IVP and XRST processing

A example of XRST processing across warm starts, cold starts that include the OLDS wrapping using DFSDDLT0 would be very useful. We feel IVP should test SLDSREAD and this can be used to accomplish this.
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

option to force DFS681I to be in JOBLOG

Provide a system level setting that would allow forcing DFS681I to be printed in BMP joblogs, overriding any suppression that might be in the individual job.
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Issue alert message to high QBUF consuming

In a Shared Queue enviroment when the utilization of QBUF reach threshold, we would like to have a alert message and identify what transactions are consuming high percentage of QBUF.
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Monitor and report on number of requests queued to the command and message processing service thread ( DFSCMTI0 )

Monitor and report on number of requests queued to the command and message processing service thread ( DFSCMTI0 ). We would like WTOs at thresholds (either IBM provided or user provided) that could be picked up and acted on by an automation product.
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

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