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IMS Database Manager

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OSAM Encryption for 4K or smaller blocksizes

OSAM Encryption (VSAM linear data set) currently has a minimum blocksize of 4K which would inhibit our ability to implement pervasive encryption. A large proportion of our databases have blocksizes smaller than 4K and more are moving in that direc...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog audit trail userid

IMS catalog audit trail SMF record 29-03 does not have end user userid. SMF record 29-03 has ODBM STC userid which is not useful. We need to know the end user who submitted DDL.
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 4 Not under consideration

IBM IDR product should show the complete DDL change in the CDC Management Console for platforms

IBM IDR product should show the complete DDL statement changed made on the source system in the CDC Management Console for platforms Right now to debug and detect the exact DDL change we need to look at the source dmts log files on source system. ...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog does not support non-unique column names within segment

Column names must be unique within the segment. However, for COBOL and PL/I, the field names within a data structure don't have to be unique.Only the fully qualified name - for example, data-name-1 in data-name-2 in data-name-2 - has to be unique....
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog does not support all the variants of zoned decimal that COBOL supports

COBOL supports these variants of zoned decimal:Unsigned, Sign trailing, Sign trailing separate, Sign leading and Sign leading separate.The IMS catalog only supports the Sign leading separate variant.
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

An IMS command 'prior' to IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG)

Hi, IBM do not have a 'prior' command to issue before IMPORT DEFN SOURCE(CATALOG) for ACB online change in managed ACBs environment. A 'prior' command should have the capability to see the resources being changed in staging directory dataset and t...
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

HALDB multiple HLQ for VSAM indexes and DBD names

State of TN uses multiple High Level Qualifiers for OSAM and VSAM definition - i.e. DSNPREF parameter needs to allow multiple parameters - VDE* for VSAM and DE* for OSAM / HALDB
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

DEDB ALTER REPLRAND - no change to randomizer name

We can replace an active DEDB database randomizer while the DEDB database remains accessible online by using the REPLRAND function of the DEDB alter utility. Current support of this function requires users to change RMNAME parameter on the DBD, DB...
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Allow storage of 88-Level Metadata in IMS Catalog

We are attempting to use the IMS Catalog to replace the functionality of our data dictionary. With the current database structure, we would be able to implement almost all of the needed functions except for keeping track of our 88-levels for field...
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

FPBP64M does not take effect to current working (scheduling) applications

We found that FPBP64M potential system outage risk like a real storage shortage, the FPBP64M current design is not able to protect the real storage shortage because current applications can expand the FPBP64 pool unlimitedly beyond the value of FP...
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

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