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IMS System Services

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QUERY OLR

QUERY OLR should allow master haldb name to be used instead of having to use each partition name.
about 11 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 11 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.
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Not under consideration

A message should be issued at the end of the Database re-open process during IMS Warm or Emergency Restart

When IMS is restarted either Warm or Emergency all Databases which were previously Open and Authorized are automatically re-opened. This happens right after restart completes unless NOPDBO is coded in DFSVSMxx PROCLIB Member. If dependent region p...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 2 Not under consideration

Request changes to IMS Global Online change

Currently we are using IMS Global Online Change in our 10 Way IMS Datasharing environment. We are currently looking at migrating to IMS V12. We use an Early Validation when migrating to a new version of IMS however it was identified that we can no...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Add tran code to HWSD0252W msg

We recently had a problem involving messages sent from IMS Connect clients timing out. Knowing the IMS transaction that is being requested would save time in problem determination. HWSD0252W UNABLE TO SEND RESPONSE FROM DS=IMS21 TO CLIENT=HWSOU0EB...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Reject huge Web Service requests/responses in ICON

This requirement has been submitted as MR1220125727. To prevent individual Web Service requests from blocking ICON instances they should be rejected by ICON. Instead, a SOAP Fault should be returned. This should be done for SOAP requests or PL/I r...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Modifications in ICON to exploit upcoming changes in PL/I memory layout and RDz

This requirement has been submitted as MR1220127810. RFE ID 29703 requests the PL/I compiler to handle varchar variables of complex structures in a way that allows the size of IMS Web Service requests and responses to be minimized. RFE ID 29705 re...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 0 Not under consideration

Parallel execution of converters

This requirement has been submitted as MR0516124555. Once large applications will go into production, Credit Suisse has a huge number of concurrent Web Service requests. It is expected that the system will not perform satisfactorily if the convert...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Not under consideration

Change IMS DFSAAMPR IPCS log record extract function for unqualified dataset names on the entry panel

While testing the new DFSAAMPR (IPCS dump formatter function) for V11 I got a RACF error due trying to allocate an invalidly named dataset. The name being generated by DFSEGDSR/DFSEWDSN was fully qualified in even though I didn't enclose it in apo...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 1 Not under consideration

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