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IMS Database Manager

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Increase FIELD SPECIFICATION LIMIT to handle expanded DBDs from IMS Explorer. 1000 fields is not enough.

Please increase FIELD SPECIFICATION LIMIT to handle expanded DBDs from IMS Explorer. 1000 fields is not enough. How about 9999? Our customers are VERY interested in IMS 13 & its .NET benefits. We need to be able to add this DBD & a number ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 3 Is a defect

Retrieve multiple IMS segments in a single JDBC Call to reduce network trips.

getUniqueDBRecord JDBC call which is able to get a root and multiple children segment types. GetUniqueDBRecord with [String: segment, String: parent, String: ssa, integer: limit, …] getUniqueDBRecord([“ROOT”, “”, ssaRoot, 1, “KID1”, “ROOT”, “”, 1,...
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 4 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...
about 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

DFS3LU00 should allow the user to choose to generate control blocks and statements from the Catalog Staging area

When using DFS3LU00 to generate DBD or PSB source statements or control blocks, only DBDs or PSBs in the active portion of the IMS catalog are considered. There is no way to specify generation from the staging portion of the IMS catalog.
almost 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Propose an LTS Release for IMS

I would like to have the possibility to chose a long time support release for IMS (like MQ product). Today, one version is a 2 years version. It is often too short for a production environment. We spend too much time to migrate the software to a n...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 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...
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 2 Not under consideration

New option to generate DBD without metadata

We would like to have a new DBDGEN option that enables users to generate a DBD without an extended fields table for metadata. For example, we propose adding a new macro like below, which precedes other DBDGEN macros and allows users to specify not...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 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:...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 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...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Future 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.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 0 Not under consideration

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