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IMS System Services

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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 ...
almost 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.
about 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...
about 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.
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

option to force DFS681I to be in JOBLOG

Provide a system level setting that would allow forcing DFS681I to be printed in BMP joblogs, overriding any suppression that might be in the individual job.
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Issue alert message to high QBUF consuming

In a Shared Queue enviroment when the utilization of QBUF reach threshold, we would like to have a alert message and identify what transactions are consuming high percentage of QBUF.
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Monitor and report on number of requests queued to the command and message processing service thread ( DFSCMTI0 )

Monitor and report on number of requests queued to the command and message processing service thread ( DFSCMTI0 ). We would like WTOs at thresholds (either IBM provided or user provided) that could be picked up and acted on by an automation product.
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

This is a test

This is a test of submitting an RFE
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 0 Not under consideration

T2 DB QUIESCE command issued and no RMs are available in the IMSPLEX

"When none of the RMs are available when DB Quiesce issues the IMSPlex-wide request to terminate the DB Quiesce process, the DBQ process resource is not deleted from the resource structure and the databases remain quiesced, with no easy way to get...
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

IMS IVP dialog - consider new Java DB

Für die JAVA-Datenbanken werden keine IC-Dateien erstellt und auch kein GENJCL (IV3H101J, IV3H104J)
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration