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In IMS Recovery Expert, if there is no quiet time, show least busy times.

Currently, IMS Recovery Expert only shows quiet times when the database does not have any inflight Units of Work. When looking at recovery scenarios with Cyber Vault situations, we may have periods of time that we will need to recover to where the...
about 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Not under consideration

ZRTMC Results Monitor

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance IMS database Usage using load modules as inputs

In the current IMS database Usage function, it is showing the database's name and the structure of the segments used in a given Cobol program. However, the users run this function with a load module as an input. I would like to see the IMS databas...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 7 Not under consideration

Add heartbeat messages to show status of IMS database backout processing

Add "heartbeat" messages to show status of IMS database backout processing, especially during IMS emergency restart.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

RANGE functionality for CRUISE

The CRUISE package currently provides controls to govern the number of concurrent ECBs the utility is allowed to run with. During this year's Herndon stress test we observed that despite increasing the number of concurrent ECBs for the utility, ru...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

z/TPF Program Analysis Tool

Headline: Program Analysis Tool 2. Lead Contact: mark.whitney@travelport.com 3. Date 2018-04-26 4. Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers, Travelport, Citibank, Amex, Marriott, Delta, and SABRE, desire an implementation desire a Progra...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Programs call graph do not show calls to SQL / Database modules from a Hogan COBOL programs

Programs call graph do not show calls to SQL / Database modules from a Hogan COBOL programs. Per initial analysis from DXC and IBM SME, calls that are coded through multi-level PERFORMs are not currently supported in ADDI and required addition cha...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Display PCB Database List Summary in IMS Abend Dumps

Currently the PCB Database List is displayed as continuous text that has to be scrolled through to see the status code for each DBD. The PCB Database List should be displayed showing each DBD as shown below in Use Case. In the example, the current...
about 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Delivered

Add support for dynamic arrays in the Catalog and IMS Explorer-created Database Views

REQUIREMENT: When performing some preliminary testing for accessing IMS data through the Catalog, we ran into an error for one of our segments that stated dynamic arrays were not supported when creating the PCB object. This is a potential showstop...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

modify the MSDB-to-DEDB Conversion utility (DBFUCDB0)

hi would like to know if you can modify the utility to correctly report the record count for databases with more than 32K database records because larger record counts cause it to wrap and/or be interpreted as a negative binary number. it would be...
about 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Is a defect