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IMS System Services

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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

IMS Sysprog

IRLM deadlock report does not include a Unit of work (UOW)or Unit of recovery (UOR) token for the transactions involved in the deadlock.Application programmers often request for input messages of the transaction when investigating the deadlocks. B...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 2 Not under consideration

DB Quiesce without RM in IMSPLEX

We have an application which has 20 single IMS production systems on 10 LPARS (2 IMS each) in one IMSPLEX . Every day at 00:00 AM we have to “DBR” all databases for a consistency point for the application. The procedure of stopping the application...
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

Transaction Userid should be used for the authorization of Commands submitted by MPP Pgm through CSLOMCMD or REXX SPOC API

Currently the Userid used to submit a Command through CSLOMCMD Macro used by a AOP Program that runs in a MPP within the processing of a Transaction is the MPP Region Userid and not the Userid of the User that submitted the Transaction.IMS should ...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

Need DFS3PU00 to create datasets on selected volser

When our customers setup Managed ACB for the first time in their environment, we don't want to let them manually estimate the size of Catalog Database, Secondary Index, Directory, BSDS, Staging, therefore our recommendation is to create these data...
over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Different handling of U0711-1E in a MPP with JVM.

The environment is IMS V14 running IMS MPP with JVM and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. Every ABEND in one of this MPP with JVM dependent region causes the rebuild of the JVM wit...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

A new option of DFS3CATQ GET for removing metadata

We'd like to request a new option of IMS Catalog API (DFS3CATQ FUNC=GET, FORMAT=DBDLIB, MBR=xxxxxx) to exclude a extended fields table for metadata from an output DBD. Metadata is not needed for IMS database reorganization. In the IMS Catalog API ...
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future consideration

IMS Support for VSAM Linear database Buffer pools 64 bit addressable

Support for VSAM LINEAR datasets for IMS databases was delivered for the enhancement for databases dataset encryption in 2020. The buffer pools for VSAM LINEAR datasets are still treated like OSAM buffer pools with 31 bit addressability. Anthem ha...
almost 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Keep IMS generation process after the requirement for IMS-managed ACBs is in place

There is a statement of direction that IBM will eliminate the need for system generation in following announcement letter.https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/760/ENUSJP17-0477/index.html&request_locale=ja ...
almost 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

SPOC Audit trail doesn't write batch job name/id number

When we submit batch SPOC, the audit trail doesn't write job name and job number to identify the job ran that executed so and so commands.
almost 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

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