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IMS System Services

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Move EPCB and CSAPSB Pool above the 64-bit bar

Mizuho-bank is now designing new account system and experiencing ECSA shortage.The main contributing factors are EPCB and CSAPSB pools, despite the efforts of IMS technical team to shrink each PSB size (cutting off the DBPCBs) and reduce IFP regio...
about 4 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

IMS V15 WADS support zHyperLink

IMS v15 WADS logging should use zHyperlink (ZHL) protocol supported by the DFSMS Media Manager I/O driver and ZHL for both reads and writes to boost performance. Background The IMS system software has exploited/relied upon the DFSMS Media Manager ...
about 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

Add Maintenance Level on the WTO

Could yo add the maintenance level to the to the WTO on the release level. As follows: IMS SYSTEM PARAMETERS ACTIVE FOR THIS V14.1 RSUxxxx (RSU2010) .
over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 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

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...
almost 5 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.
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

IMS VUE Inclusion Parm

IMS implementation of VUE (Value Unit Edition) licensing requires a new FMID be applied/accepted, and an ALL gen performed. The presence of the FMID in the dlibs/dzone generates the system as VUE - with no parm to override.We need to support both ...
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

USEREXIT TYPE(IMSMON)

An IMSMON type user exit is not notified of termination when it is deleted by IMS as the result of a REFRESH USEREXIT command. This occurs if it was removed from a list of exits defined in the same USEREXIT definition. For example if XXX was remov...
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

IMS CHECKPOINT : queuing of the COMMANDS

Actually, when an IMS command is entered when there is a SYSTEM CHECKPOINT, the command is rejected. The command should be queued instead.
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

IMS Support of MQSERIES queue-sharing group

As CICS, IMS should support the MQSERIES queue-sharing group. IMS partially support the DB2 data sharing groups. Why not MQSERIES part ?
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

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