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IMS Database Manager

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DFS2291I: include IMSID in the SHORT message

Change the LONG form of DFS2291I lock timeout message to be a multi-line WTO, to make it easier for Automation products to extract the necessary data from the individual messages, in order to take action such as cancel the top lock blocker. At pre...
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

DL/I Call Resource Governor

IMS should support a resource governor facility which can abort an inflight DL/I call after a certain amount of CPU, I/O, or elapsed time. The abort should abend the UR. This will help prevent situations where a problematic long running DL/I call ...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

ISF0413-1606 IDAA Support for IMS data

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: gregory.debo.bipd@statefarm.comSubmitters Company: State Farm PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: ISF0413-1606 IDAA Support for IMS dataHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Information ManagementCurrent Status:...
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic allocation of Full Function databases from Recon

IMS Fast Path database datasets are dynamically allocated using the information registered in the Recon datasets. We would like the same to apply to Full Function databases.
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 0 Not under consideration

Better Replication Solution needed to move incremental changes to IDAA and CP4D

Asked this of Mario Perotti on a recent Webex and he suggested submitting an Idea, so here we are. Customers that have data in an IMS database are using it within IMS for transactional purposes, but need to move it elsewhere for Analytics. We curr...
6 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Backup Object Size to Reflect in Metadata

Currently DB2 doesn't provide backup object size in Admin_Hist or any metadata tables. It writes to diag but that's very challenging to read and interpret . If backup object size info added to metadata it will help for planning our backup storage ...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Heartbeat message for long running IMPORTs under managed ACBs

In an IMS managed ACB environment the IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG) command is being used to activated previously generated directory control blocks for PSBs and DBDs. If you are importing a larger number of control blocks, the import processing can...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Add warning option when setting a DFSVSMxx LOCKTIME value

Currently when setting LOCKTIME in DFSVSMxx to set a timeout value, the options available for BMPOPT and MSGOPT are to either abend, or return a BD status code to the application. Neither are currently feasible because the application may not be a...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 28 Not under consideration

Allow definition of fields in the filler segment of an IMS db without required DBR for catalog

We currently define segments in a Data Base Definition (DBD), along with a key field. The remaining segment length does not have data fields defined in the DBD. We define data fields in external copybooks. Therefore, there is no outage of the data...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Stop all IMS ODBM PST related work if the associated IMS Connect DRDA JDBC Socket goes away

There are several situations, when the IMS Connect DRDA socket goes away, but the ODBM thread/PST continues its work or hangs. Examples are, PST in Lock Wait in PI systems. DL/I call resulting in a database scan or other long running work, that wa...
about 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 2 Not under consideration

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