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IMS System Services

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IMS Dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB

To be able to activate the dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB. For example, modifications of DB POOLS by reading DFSVSM*. So that the updates of the Proclib be validated.
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

Provide a command to create a DB Alloc Record for a database in DBRC Recon

Provide a command to create an ALLOC record for a database in DBRC Recon dataset. Today an ALLOC record is only created when a DLI update call is issued against the database.
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Syntax Checker should support all members of the IMS PROCLIB

Syntax Checker should support all members of the IMS PROCLIB, and be able to guess the member type based on the member name.
about 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Treat CPUTIME and COUNT in PROCLIM independent of each other in determining U240 Tran abend

Currently, a transaction can have a max time equal to the product of CPU-time-per-transaction and count as specified in the PROCLIM parm. This means that if the count needs to be adjusted for tuning purposes, it will have an impact to how long a l...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

SLDSREAD to retry automatically on secondary dataset

Testing the new feature SLDSREAD on IMS v11 and we have found a situation that we think is not correct. IMS always tries to mount the primary SLDS dataset even though it has an i/o error, it has been deleted or it has been marked in error. Several...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Stateless non-use Tpipes to be cleared after 2 checkpoints instead of 3

Currently stateless non-use tpipes are cleared after 3 checkpoints. Due to potential high volume of stateless tpipes would like the system to clear them sooner to avoid resource shortages. This specifically comes into play for us due the increased...
about 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Future 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

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

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