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IMS System Services

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Provide information about the destination of ims messages.

I would like to have in the IMS documentation the information where IMS messages are displayed , system console, IMS master (MTO) or both.
almost 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

DRD command to look at last user to access PGM/TRAN

Be able to query the last or one of the more recent users to have accessed a program, transaction, or database.
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

DRD EXPORT should support DDDEF in addition to DSN

The type-2 command EXPORT should support specifying an output DDDEF instead of only permitting a full DSN (and one that doesn't support relative GDG references).
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

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

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