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IMS System Services

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QUERY TIMESTAMP output order

The output order of the TimeStamp fields (TimeCreate, TimeUpdate, TimeAccess, TimeImport) is different for QUERY TRAN, QUERY PGM, QUERY DB (we don't use Fast Path, so I don't know about routing codes).QUERY TRAN NAME(xxxxxxxx) SHOW(TIMESTAMP) has ...
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 4 Is a defect

Sample OM input user exit

Provide a sample for OM input user exit.
over 10 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 &...
over 10 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.
over 10 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 other IMS Catalog & IMS Explor...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 6 Not under consideration

ERE abend U2800 should not have to happen,

ERE fails with a 2800 when OLC was in progress when IMS abended and the OLCSTAT data set gets locks. If there are no active IMS systems the data set needs to be unlocked by a batch utility. This delays the ERE until this is done. We need an option...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 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 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

QUERY OLR

QUERY OLR should allow master haldb name to be used instead of having to use each partition name.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 4 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...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 2 Not under consideration

More then 1 data set for staging ACBLIB DFSMDA member.

As per current design Dynamic Allocation for the ACBLIB staging library allow only one data set to be specified. The DFSMDA TYPE=IMSACB macro allow only one data set and should be modified to allow more then one specification.
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Not under consideration

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