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IMS System Services

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Add a facility to alow User show how many Transactions have been processed by a SQ Member

Customer reported that in a Shared Queues environment the /DIS Command Outout does not allow him to verify which IMS in the IMSPlex has processed the Transactions.Customer SP's which are implementing new IMS Shared Queues Environments to process s...
about 5 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) - does not show ENQ Count

The TYPE-2 command QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) does not provide a ENQ count, We would like the ENQ Count added when a QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) is done.
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 4 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

Refresh MFS edit routines DFSMExxx

Prior to IMS V15, we have a local mod (MFS Exit Controller) that allows us to monitor and refresh the MFS Edit routines (DFSMExxx). With changes to IMS V15, this local mod is no longer usable. As a development shop, we often modify the exits and r...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

DDL and ACBGEN equivalent BLDPSB=YES

Using ACBGEN, if we want to make segment level change such as key length change, we use BUILD DBD=xxxxxxxx,BLDPSB=YES. This builds DBD and all the PSBs that use the DBD that we want to change. With DDL, I understand that we can use ALTER to make s...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

OTMA settings should be in effect and honored when IMS starts to accept OTMA traffic

Customer is running with AOS=Y, but he has found that after an /ERE consequent to a IMS Cancel some CM1 Synclevel Confirm SL1 Messages were Enqueued with Affinity to FE IMS for a SERIAL PSB Transaction.Input messages arrived from MQ before restart...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Refresh application programs in a MPR with persistent JVM

IMS with MPP with persistent JVM. CANCEL_PGM=NO and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. The Language Environment enclave remains active during all the MPR lifetime in order to keep t...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

Change IMS Catalog Definition Exit DFS3CDX0 to make it more user friendly

DFS3CDX0 is used to provide settings and attributes of the IMS Catalog to Batch application programs.It is an alternative to code “xxx” in the JCL of batch jobs for referencing to DFSDFxxx Member in IMS.PROCLIB. Currently all parameters from DFSDF...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 2 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/DC vs. DCCTL CSA storage comparisons

The usage of resources like CSA is expected to be different between IMS in a DB/DC configuration and IMS in a DCCTL configuration. Analysis proved that some "DB" modules are currently (IMS V14) loaded also in a DCCTL environment even if not requir...
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

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