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IMS System Services

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Improve GOLC for 24x7 by relaxing requirement that all IMS systems are up.

GOLC requirement to have all IMS systems up (or you are forced to do a cold start) severely constrains operations from running IMS per business needs in a 24x7 environment where other scheduling or operational issues may require processors to be d...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

This is a test RFE

This is a test RFE.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 0 Not under consideration

Syntax Checker should make it easy to find what the highlighting and colors mean

There doesn't appear to be documentation about what the various colors and underlines mean in the Syntax Checker. That should be easy to find in the Information Center and from the online help when hitting PF1.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Have the way / possibility (i.e. a Command) to verify online who / what is occupying the WKAP Pool

As a consequence of the fact Customer randomly suffers WKAP Pool shortage condition, which in the past even lead to an ABENDU0729 then corrected (Pmr 80256,830,758 - Fixed through Apar PK88043), and recently lead to message DFS2026 INSUFFICIENT ST...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Automate IVP table maintenance to reduce APAR hold cards

Everytime an IVP table variable is added or updated the apar reqiures an action hold card instructing the user to merge table data. A feature should be added to IVP either to automatically inform users that a table merge is required or to automati...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Fix to long running CSLUSPOC

When I run a batch CSLUSPOC program with the following command, "EXPORT DEFN TARGET(RDDS) RDDSDSN(IMSVS.TEST.BATCH.RDDS) TYPE(PGM) + OPTION(ALLRSP)", against an IMS that has > 100,000 DRD resources, the job takes 40-50% of the CPU for a couple ...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Sample OM input user exit

Provide a sample for OM input user exit.
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 2 Not under consideration

Want HOST batch process to add new ODBM fields to DBDs & PSBs

There are new & changed DBD & PSB statements for extended Object exploitation by Java. IMS Explorer will add the new fields, but that means the source of the current DBD, PSB, & COPYBOOK must be uploaded. The source is manipulated &...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

RAS - Tracing ICAL data in the '6701' log record

DFSDLA30 produces very nice LA3A and LA3B trace records for DC calls. But ICAL does no go through there - it goes through DFSDLA40 which produces no trace records.
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 1 Not under consideration

IMS Catalog size estimate-COPYBOOKs are not currently included in estimate

The IMS Catalog database size estimating process only includes the PSB & DBD info.    Those are tiny compared to my COPYBOOK members.    They are HUGH.    I have sent examples to developers in the past during othe...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 6 Not under consideration

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