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IMS Database Manager

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Catalog IMS - JCL/BMP/PSB

We would like to have one additional information in the IMS catalog: the link between the name of JCLLIB, the JCL jobname and the PSB used by the BMP.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

Use of "Bypass extent checking function " for DEDB Access to improve performance under many parallel I/Os on the same AREA

Our customer's systems are experiencing lock timeout issues and have seen DASD response times increase during certain times of high transaction rates.About over 100 FP areas from each of the three data sharers have been consolidated and updated wi...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 29 Future consideration

IDAA support for IMS

Please provide similar function to IDAA for IMS. We need both functions like following. a) Transform IMS hierarchal data to relational data format and load it into IDAA appliance.b) When SQLs come into IMS DB, then route these SQLs to IDAA applian...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

Create SDEP INDOUBT keyword for SDEP DELETE Processing

REQUIREMENT: We encountered an INDOUBT segment in our DEDB SDEP section, following the deletion of an EEQE. We were able to execute the SDEP SCAN with the INDOUBT keyword, to process the INDOUBT segment, but we were not able to execute the SDEP DE...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 28 Not under consideration

modify the MSDB-to-DEDB Conversion utility (DBFUCDB0)

hi would like to know if you can modify the utility to correctly report the record count for databases with more than 32K database records because larger record counts cause it to wrap and/or be interpreted as a negative binary number. it would be...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Is a defect

DEDB DBFUMIN0 DB utility and ACBLIB

DBFUMIN0 requires the ACBLIB library. During IMS version migration in an IMSPLEX environnement, the utility fails because it ran in IMS V12 and ACBLIB was still in V11. DBFUMIN0 should be able to run with the DBDLIB to be not release dependant.
about 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic allocation of Full Function databases from Recon

IMS Fast Path database datasets are dynamically allocated using the information registered in the Recon datasets. We would like the same to apply to Full Function databases.
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 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

Allow Wildcarding of DB/Partition/SSID Names in DBRC Commands

Allow the use of wildcards in DBRC command statements such as, for example, LIST.DB DBD(IVP*) DBDS.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 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.
over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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