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IMS System Services

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allowing limiting access on commands to individual TRANs and PGMs

Allow extra granularity for controlling and granting access to a group or individual to issues commands against specific transactions or programs, potentially by the program or transaction name to a RACF profile name.
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Correct DFS618A to follow proper IMS standards.

Message DFS618A is split across two lines and connected by '......' (7 periods ) with second line beginning with DFS000I. This violates DBCTL standard in that their should be a blank after DFS000I.Correct DFS618A to follow proper IMS standards.Ple...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 1 Not under consideration

IMS should not issue RESTART command error messages until it is actualy read to accept another RESTART command.

IMS should not issue RESTART command error messages until it is actualy read to accept another RESTART command.This makes it much simpler for automation to handle, in that it can react to the error message and issue a ( corrected ) RESTART command...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 1 Not under consideration

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.
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 5 Not under consideration

Different DFS554A message between dependant region and IMs control region.

DFS554A message can be not the same between dependant region and IMs control region. Could DFS554A be always consistent between IMS dependant region and IMS Control region ?
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Not under consideration

Refresh exit DFSINSX0

DFSINSX0 - Request to dynamically load user exit
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Increase security to IMS logs.

Provide a function that makes it possible to create a digital signature for a SLDS.A similar function is already present for z/OS SMF log records.
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

filter QUERY IMSPLEX on subtypes

The type-2 QUERY command should support filtering not just on TYPE, but also on subtype. Note: not all types have printable character subtypes: I have encountered some that with binary zeros and others with the zero length empty string. It can thi...
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

DFSRRC00/BMP and IMSID

BMP runs with DFSRRC00 uses IMSID=xxxx to indicate which IMS the BMP should connect to. If IMSID used in JCL is an invalid subsystem in the LPAR, BMP fails with 0688. However if IMSID used in JCL is a valid non-IMS subsystem, the BMP does not fail...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

DDL Extensions for ALTER support (ACBSHR=Y)

DDL Extensions for ALTER is not supported for ACBSHR=Y. DDL Extensions is only available for CRATE.
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Not under consideration

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