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IMS System Services

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Allow IMS applications to connect with the MQ queue sharing group name

Allow a IMS BMP to issue an MQCONN call specifying the queue sharing group name instead of the queue manager name
about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Keyword 'ALL' needed for /DIS STATUS command

Current /DIS STATUS command can be issued without any keyword, which can result in massive output messages for all IMS resources generated to WTO.This can impact the operations of system operators. It also affects overall workload throughput due t...
4 months ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

Update DFSFDLS0 to disable OPTCD=W for virtual tape subsystems

Please make the changes for IMS to allow me to disable OPTCD=W for tape logging with a parameter in //DFSVSAMP a permanent feature of IMS. This was originally released to the IMS population as a usermod created by Dave Viguers. It needs to be buil...
almost 8 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

CSL Environment startup parameters values should be displayed at IMS and CSL environment startup time.

The contents of IMS Proclib Member DFSDCxxx , CSL Proclib Member DFSCGxxx , SCI Proclib Member CSLSIxxx , OM Proclib Member CSLOIxxx and RM Proclib Member CSLRIxxx should be displayed at IMS and CSL environment Tasks startup time in the same way t...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 6 Not under consideration

Logging IMS record x'56FA' on SMF

Our customer Unicredit is going to implement IBM IzPCA product that gets in near real time the SMF records created by almost all system software products running on Z. The only important subsystem that cannot be managed in such a way is IMS. We wo...
about 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

TYPE56FA TLS Transaction Level Statistics Log Record does not show the actual Input Queue Time for PtP switches

The actual Transaction Input Queue Time can not be taken from TYPE56FA Log Records for PtP Messages processing.Field TPINUTC, that Customer wants to subtract from field TPSTARTU to get the Input Queue Time, is in fact the Timestamp when the first ...
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

IMS Restart Light as an FDBR replacement

Provide an option to do an IMS Restart Light (comparable to a DB2 restart light) which only closes the Online Log Dataset (OLDS) , does Backout for any inflight PSB, and releases corresponding IRLM locks. IMS Control region should then shutdown im...
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 1 Not under consideration

Add parameters related to logging and CHKW calls for USERMOD elimination

We have a USERMOD in place for IMS V15 related to performance. This USERMOD was originally put in place for logging performance issues in our environment related to high volume BMPs causing logging delays and holding up the BMP and online environm...
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

control authority to issue commands with wildcards

Allow controlling who has authority on issuing commands with wildcards
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

added granularity to security around commands

TYPE-1 commands allowing granting a user start, stop, lock, and unlock authority separate from the authority to change other metadata, such as changing a TRAN from parallel to serial or setting EDITUC. TYPE-2 commands should support this, too, but...
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

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