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IMS Database Manager

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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...
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 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.
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 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...
over 10 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.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 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 ...
over 5 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.
over 5 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

IMS need to support for IRLM NF APAR PI93819 (Improve IRLM serviceability)

IRLM new function APAR PI93819 (Improve IRLM serviceability) was released, and DB2 APAR PI93817 was shipped for the new function (ENHANCE IRLM RELATED INFORMATION IN DB2 STAT COLLECTION)But IMS has no plan to provide the enhancement for related IR...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 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 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

DL1 : Produce Log on READ access

We have some database containing sensible data that should not be read by unauthorized persons.For PCI-DSS compliance (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) for example, you need to log the access to these sensible data.Our request is that...
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration