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IMS System Services

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Create/update DVSVC000 at IMS control region start

IMS should create the DFSVC000 member at a cold start. or IMS should override the IMS ID from the Sysgen process in the DFSVC000 member with the IMSID provided in the DFSPBxxx member at a cold start.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Change panel CSLUPAA (SPOC) to support wider screen sizes.

This deficiency locks the user into a *x80 form factor even when using a wider screen sizes. This causes the user to waste time scrolling left and right in a very narrow window. I can supply an alternative version of the CSLUPAA panel that support...
almost 2 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

IMS CHECKPOINT : queuing of the COMMANDS

Actually, when an IMS command is entered when there is a SYSTEM CHECKPOINT, the command is rejected. The command should be queued instead.
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

IMS Support of MQSERIES queue-sharing group

As CICS, IMS should support the MQSERIES queue-sharing group. IMS partially support the DB2 data sharing groups. Why not MQSERIES part ?
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

ABEND parameter for single IMS when IRLM ABEND occurs.

We need IMS ABEND parameter for single IMS(non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS) when IRLM ABEND occurs. Also, We hope you to standardize specification method of ABEND parameter.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Not under consideration

Reduce CPU usage of writing x'99' logs by zIIP offload

We are planning to use IIDR for IMS for next disaster recovery system. We need to change DBD definitions of source IMS system to write x'99' logs for replication. We conducted performance test on the source IMS system with x'99' logs and CPU cost ...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

IMS Dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB

To be able to activate the dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB. For example, modifications of DB POOLS by reading DFSVSM*. So that the updates of the Proclib be validated.
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

Force affinity to same LPAR IMS FE for IMS Connect distributed 2PC Global transactions (until implementation of RFE 35707)

Currently a distributed Synclevel 2 global transaction that involves IMS Connect has the restriction that IMS Connect and IMS (and RRS too) have to be on the same LPAR.This is documented in Paragraph "Global (XA) transaction with TCP/IP" of IMS Co...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

IMS V15 WADS support zHyperLink

IMS v15 WADS logging should use zHyperlink (ZHL) protocol supported by the DFSMS Media Manager I/O driver and ZHL for both reads and writes to boost performance. Background The IMS system software has exploited/relied upon the DFSMS Media Manager ...
almost 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

Modification to the IMS X'04C' log record

In order to monitor users who are performing specific IMS commands, we are requesting that the IMS DFSLOG4C macro (x'04C log record) be modified to include the USERID of the requester. The IMS commands we are interested in are STOPs/STARTs (includ...
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

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