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IMS Database Manager

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User Exits During DDL processing

During processing for a DEDB database member, a user exit will be needed to validate the vendor data in the catalog, and place it into an extension to Directory member. The exit should be able to add related SHISAM database(s) to the list of datab...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Vendor Data in the Directory after DDL

Extended Operands and Vendor Data are in the Directory after using the Catalog Populate Utility to populate the Catalog and Directory from ACBLIB when using IMS Managed ACBs. When building PSBs and DMBs from the Catalog for DDL and the Catalog Dir...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

IMS Load instr @ DFSDOC10+CC has base & index registers reversed issue discovered while running ZAD

IMS Load instr @ DFSDOC10+CC has base & index registers reversed issue discovered while running ZAD
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Enhance IMS to be able to do decimal compares on DL/I calls

Current IMS only performs binary compares when a DL/I call contains a qualified SSA. This is a problem for packed and zoned decimal values and comparisons with >, >=, < and <=. Because IMS only performs binary comparisons a DL/I call c...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Future consideration

Support DBFUMIN0 with DBRC=N under the IMS Managed ACB environment

We typically use DBFUMIN0 utility with DBRC=N to format ADS because we could save time to spend DBFUMRI0 utility. We do not format ADS during online transaction processing by using DBFUMRI0, but we use DBFUMIN0 with DBRC=N to format ADS, then use ...
about 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Future consideration

Quiesce command with deallocate option for DB ALTER without an outage

IMS API or Command support is needed as to quiesce database access within IMS and to activate database metadata changes. IMS Tools reorganization utility will invoke it to perform the online reorganization and activate a database change without a ...
about 3 years 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

Change Request for DFSBRLSC Macro

We would like to request that the DFSBRLSC macro add a new option ACTIVE/STAGING to the DFSBRLSC macro.The IMS Reorg utility needs to issue a DBRC RECON command to the staging data set using the DFSBRLSC macro.Therefore, we would like you to add a...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Future consideration

OSAM Encryption for 4K or smaller blocksizes

OSAM Encryption (VSAM linear data set) currently has a minimum blocksize of 4K which would inhibit our ability to implement pervasive encryption. A large proportion of our databases have blocksizes smaller than 4K and more are moving in that direc...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IBM IDR product should show the complete DDL change in the CDC Management Console for platforms

IBM IDR product should show the complete DDL statement changed made on the source system in the CDC Management Console for platforms Right now to debug and detect the exact DDL change we need to look at the source dmts log files on source system. ...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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